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Yongzhi Chen commented on HIVE-9528: ------------------------------------ Is this jira? https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2723 Thanks > SemanticException: Ambiguous column reference > --------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-9528 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-9528 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 0.14.0 > Reporter: Yongzhi Chen > Assignee: Navis > > When running the following query: > {code} > SELECT if( COUNT(*) = 0, 'true', 'false' ) as RESULT FROM ( select * from > sim a join sim2 b on a.simstr=b.simstr) app > Error: Error while compiling statement: FAILED: SemanticException [Error > 10007]: Ambiguous column reference simstr in app (state=42000,code=10007) > {code} > This query works fine in hive 0.10 > In the apache trunk, following workaround will work: > {code} > SELECT if(COUNT(*) = 0, 'true', 'false') as RESULT FROM (select a.* from sim > a join sim2 b on a.simstr=b.simstr) app; > {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)