diff --git a/src/planner/expand_hypertable.c b/src/planner/expand_hypertable.c
index 337b0b7c103..61f0156d05a 100644
--- a/src/planner/expand_hypertable.c
+++ b/src/planner/expand_hypertable.c
@@ -1381,10 +1381,8 @@ ts_plan_expand_hypertable_chunks(Hypertable *ht, PlannerInfo *root, RelOptInfo *
 
 	/* Adding partition info will make PostgreSQL consider the inheritance
 	 * children as part of a partitioned relation. This will enable
-	 * partitionwise aggregation. */
-	if ((enable_partitionwise_aggregate &&
-		 !has_partialize_function((Node *) root->parse->targetList, TS_DO_NOT_FIX_AGGSPLIT)) ||
-		hypertable_is_distributed(ht))
+	 * partitionwise aggregation for distributed queries. */
+	if (hypertable_is_distributed(ht))
 	{
 		build_hypertable_partition_info(ht, root, rel, list_length(inh_oids));
 	}