Hi, I'm not sure if this is a know problem but when I use a non-generic UDAF (either the examples under contrib or my own) within a simple query they work fine but if I use them over a column from a subquery, execution fails with the exceptions below.
Working query: select myavg(players) from test; Failing query: select myavg(players) from (select players from test order by day) tmp; java.lang.RuntimeException: Error in configuring object at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setJobConf(ReflectionUtils.java:93) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setConf(ReflectionUtils.java:64) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.newInstance(ReflectionUtils.java:117) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ReduceTask.runOldReducer(ReduceTask.java:426) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ReduceTask.run(ReduceTask.java:411) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child.main(Child.java:170) Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setJobConf(ReflectionUtils.java:88) ... 5 more Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Reduce operator initialization failed at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.ExecReducer.configure(ExecReducer.java:157) ... 10 more Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: cannot find field value from [0:_col0] at org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.ObjectInspectorUtils.getStandardStructFieldRef(ObjectInspectorUtils.java:321) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.StandardStructObjectInspector.getStructFieldRef(StandardStructObjectInspector.java:119) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.ExprNodeColumnEvaluator.initialize(ExprNodeColumnEvaluator.java:82) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.GroupByOperator.initializeOp(GroupByOperator.java:252) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.initialize(Operator.java:357) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.initialize(Operator.java:433) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.initializeChildren(Operator.java:389) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.SelectOperator.initializeOp(SelectOperator.java:62) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.initialize(Operator.java:357) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.initialize(Operator.java:433) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.initializeChildren(Operator.java:389) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.SelectOperator.initializeOp(SelectOperator.java:62) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.initialize(Operator.java:357) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.initialize(Operator.java:433) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.initializeChildren(Operator.java:389) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.ExtractOperator.initializeOp(ExtractOperator.java:40) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.initialize(Operator.java:357) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.ExecReducer.configure(ExecReducer.java:150) ... 10 more Any help is appreciated!