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sukhendu chakraborty commented on HIVE-1449: -------------------------------------------- I have slightly different symptoms but they seem to be related: select dist Group1 , count(*) x from cars_tab order by dist; FAILED: Error in semantic analysis: Line 1:43 Invalid table alias or column reference dist However, if I use the column alias (Group1), it passes: select dist Group1 , count(*) x from cars_tab order by Group1; > Table aliases in order by clause lead to semantic analysis failure > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-1449 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1449 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Query Processor > Reporter: Ashish Thusoo > Assignee: Ashish Thusoo > > A simple statement of the form > select a.account_id, count(1) from tmp_ash_test2 a group by a.account_id > order by a.account_id; > throws a sematic analysis exception > where as > select a.account_id, count(1) from tmp_ash_test2 a group by a.account_id > order by account_id; > works fine (the second query does not have the table alias a in the order by > clause. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira