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Adam Kramer commented on HIVE-1731: ----------------------------------- SELECT a.id, VAR(a.cnt) FROM mytable a FAILED: Error in semantic analysis: line 1:94 Expression Not In Group By Key a ...what this error message should say is "Function VAR is either undefined or it is not an aggregation function." ...and even if this were a GOOD message, it means "expression not in group by key a.cnt"...just saying a is useless. > Improve miscellaneous error messages > ------------------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-1731 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1731 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Diagnosability, Query Processor > Reporter: John Sichi > > This is a place for accumulating error message improvements so that we can > update a bunch in batch. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira