Hive: More clean way to SELECT AS and GROUP BY
问题 I try to write Hive Sql like that SELECT count(1), substr(date, 1, 4) as year FROM *** GROUP BY year But Hive cannot recognize the alias name 'year', it complains that: FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10004]: Line 1:79 Invalid table alias or column reference 'year' One solution(Hive: SELECT AS and GROUP BY) suggest to use 'GROUP BY substr(date, 1, 4)'. It works! However in some cases the value I want to group by may be generated from multiple lines of hive function code , it's very ugly to