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Shengsheng Huang updated HIVE-3167: ----------------------------------- Attachment: HIVE-3167.1.patch A simple patch to notify user that select distinct * is not supported at present. > bad error message for select distinct * > --------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-3167 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3167 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Namit Jain > Attachments: HIVE-3167.1.patch > > > hive> select distinct * from src; > FAILED: Error in semantic analysis: Line 0:-1 Invalid function 'TOK_ALLCOLREF' > It is very difficult to understand the above error -- 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