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Zoltan Haindrich commented on HIVE-18445: ----------------------------------------- oh...I was looking thru things for a few minutes...but eventually I've figured it out....the groupby is added because HIVE-13567 have enable the colstats collection which technically an extra aggregator executed on the newly created table's contents - and because of the aggregation there is a groupby; because UDAFs has a wider range of function than just aggregate a column; probably most importantly, the [aggregation modes|https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/d6c6d96f98d998298618a643bd0d571d4e290dc3/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/udf/generic/GenericUDAFEvaluator.java#L76]. +1 pending tests > qtests: auto_join25.q fails permanently > --------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-18445 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-18445 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Tests > Reporter: Laszlo Bodor > Assignee: Laszlo Bodor > Priority: Major > Attachments: HIVE-18445.01.patch > > > org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.TestCliDriver.testCliDriver[auto_join25] > (batchId=72) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)