diff --git a/tests/queries/0_stateless/01291_distributed_low_cardinality_memory_efficient.reference b/tests/queries/0_stateless/01291_distributed_low_cardinality_memory_efficient.reference
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+foo
diff --git a/tests/queries/0_stateless/01291_distributed_low_cardinality_memory_efficient.sql b/tests/queries/0_stateless/01291_distributed_low_cardinality_memory_efficient.sql
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+DROP TABLE IF EXISTS data;
+DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dist;
+
+create table data (key String) Engine=Memory();
+create table dist (key LowCardinality(String)) engine=Distributed(test_cluster_two_shards, currentDatabase(), data);
+insert into data values ('foo');
+set distributed_aggregation_memory_efficient=1;
+select * from dist group by key;
+
+DROP TABLE data;
+DROP TABLE dist;