diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/RelationalGroupedDataset.scala b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/RelationalGroupedDataset.scala
index 7dbf2e6c7c798b0b1ccd2450275a29b454576b31..deb2e8216524d2a07eab3666db7d0cc48d91e5ec 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/RelationalGroupedDataset.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/RelationalGroupedDataset.scala
@@ -208,7 +208,11 @@ class RelationalGroupedDataset protected[sql](
    */
   @scala.annotation.varargs
   def agg(expr: Column, exprs: Column*): DataFrame = {
-    toDF((expr +: exprs).map(_.expr))
+    toDF((expr +: exprs).map {
+      case typed: TypedColumn[_, _] =>
+        typed.withInputType(df.resolvedTEncoder, df.logicalPlan.output).expr
+      case c => c.expr
+    })
   }
 
   /**
diff --git a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DatasetAggregatorSuite.scala b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DatasetAggregatorSuite.scala
index 3a7215ee39728345ad8215eb86dfe21ce1b1d6a4..0d84a594f71a9b62dbb9971a8ce4cf24961994bc 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DatasetAggregatorSuite.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DatasetAggregatorSuite.scala
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ package org.apache.spark.sql
 
 import scala.language.postfixOps
 
-import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.encoders.ExpressionEncoder
 import org.apache.spark.sql.expressions.Aggregator
 import org.apache.spark.sql.expressions.scala.typed
 import org.apache.spark.sql.functions._
@@ -85,6 +84,15 @@ class ParameterizedTypeSum[IN, OUT : Numeric : Encoder](f: IN => OUT)
   override def outputEncoder: Encoder[OUT] = implicitly[Encoder[OUT]]
 }
 
+object RowAgg extends Aggregator[Row, Int, Int] {
+  def zero: Int = 0
+  def reduce(b: Int, a: Row): Int = a.getInt(0) + b
+  def merge(b1: Int, b2: Int): Int = b1 + b2
+  def finish(r: Int): Int = r
+  override def bufferEncoder: Encoder[Int] = Encoders.scalaInt
+  override def outputEncoder: Encoder[Int] = Encoders.scalaInt
+}
+
 
 class DatasetAggregatorSuite extends QueryTest with SharedSQLContext {
 
@@ -200,4 +208,8 @@ class DatasetAggregatorSuite extends QueryTest with SharedSQLContext {
         (1279869254, "Some String"))
   }
 
+  test("aggregator in DataFrame/Dataset[Row]") {
+    val df = Seq(1 -> "a", 2 -> "b", 3 -> "b").toDF("i", "j")
+    checkAnswer(df.groupBy($"j").agg(RowAgg.toColumn), Row("a", 1) :: Row("b", 5) :: Nil)
+  }
 }