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Sergey Shelukhin commented on HIVE-5658: ---------------------------------------- [~hagleitn] are you the owner of all things null? :) > count(distinct) produces confusing results for null > --------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-5658 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5658 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Sergey Shelukhin > > {code} > select csmallint, count(distinct(csmallint)) from alltypesorc group by > csmallint limit 3; > {code} > produces: > {noformat} > NULL 0 > -16379 1 > -16373 1 > {noformat} > There are records in table with NULL values; however the count in this case > should be 1, not 0, it seems -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1#6144)