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Amareshwari Sriramadasu commented on HIVE-474:
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I'm trying to understand the real problem we are solving here. As first step, I 
did the changes in SemanticAnalyzer to allow distinct selection for multiple 
columns and executed the query: 
{code}
select count(key), count(value), count(distinct key), count(distinct value), 
count(distinct key, value) from src;
{code}
It returns corrects results with the current implementation itself. 
Can you explain the problem with current implementation?


> Support for distinct selection on two or more columns
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-474
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-474
>             Project: Hadoop Hive
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Query Processor
>            Reporter: Alexis Rondeau
>            Assignee: Amareshwari Sriramadasu
>         Attachments: hive-474.0.4.2rc.patch
>
>
> The ability to select distinct several, individual columns as by example: 
> select count(distinct user), count(distinct session) from actions;   
> Currently returns the following failure: 
> FAILED: Error in semantic analysis: line 2:7 DISTINCT on Different Columns 
> not Supported user

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