diff --git a/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/expressions/codegen/CodeGenerator.scala b/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/expressions/codegen/CodeGenerator.scala
index 16fb1f683710f..4bd9ee03f96dd 100644
--- a/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/expressions/codegen/CodeGenerator.scala
+++ b/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/expressions/codegen/CodeGenerator.scala
@@ -584,15 +584,18 @@ class CodegenContext {
    * @param expressions the codes to evaluate expressions.
    */
   def splitExpressions(row: String, expressions: Seq[String]): String = {
-    if (row == null) {
+    if (row == null || currentVars != null) {
       // Cannot split these expressions because they are not created from a row object.
       return expressions.mkString("\n")
     }
     val blocks = new ArrayBuffer[String]()
     val blockBuilder = new StringBuilder()
     for (code <- expressions) {
-      // We can't know how many byte code will be generated, so use the number of bytes as limit
-      if (blockBuilder.length > 64 * 1000) {
+      // We can't know how many bytecode will be generated, so use the length of source code
+      // as metric. A method should not go beyond 8K, otherwise it will not be JITted, should
+      // also not be too small, or it will have many function calls (for wide table), see the
+      // results in BenchmarkWideTable.
+      if (blockBuilder.length > 1024) {
         blocks.append(blockBuilder.toString())
         blockBuilder.clear()
       }
diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/aggregate/HashAggregateExec.scala b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/aggregate/HashAggregateExec.scala
index cfc47aba889aa..bd7efa606e0ce 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/aggregate/HashAggregateExec.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/aggregate/HashAggregateExec.scala
@@ -603,8 +603,6 @@ case class HashAggregateExec(
 
     // create grouping key
     ctx.currentVars = input
-    // make sure that the generated code will not be splitted as multiple functions
-    ctx.INPUT_ROW = null
     val unsafeRowKeyCode = GenerateUnsafeProjection.createCode(
       ctx, groupingExpressions.map(e => BindReferences.bindReference[Expression](e, child.output)))
     val vectorizedRowKeys = ctx.generateExpressions(
diff --git a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/benchmark/BenchmarkWideTable.scala b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/benchmark/BenchmarkWideTable.scala
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..9dcaca0ca93ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/benchmark/BenchmarkWideTable.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.spark.sql.execution.benchmark
+
+import org.apache.spark.util.Benchmark
+
+
+/**
+ * Benchmark to measure performance for wide table.
+ * To run this:
+ *  build/sbt "sql/test-only *benchmark.BenchmarkWideTable"
+ *
+ * Benchmarks in this file are skipped in normal builds.
+ */
+class BenchmarkWideTable extends BenchmarkBase {
+
+  ignore("project on wide table") {
+    val N = 1 << 20
+    val df = sparkSession.range(N)
+    val columns = (0 until 400).map{ i => s"id as id$i"}
+    val benchmark = new Benchmark("projection on wide table", N)
+    benchmark.addCase("wide table", numIters = 5) { iter =>
+      df.selectExpr(columns : _*).queryExecution.toRdd.count()
+    }
+    benchmark.run()
+
+    /**
+     * Here are some numbers with different split threshold:
+     *
+     *  Split threshold      methods       Rate(M/s)   Per Row(ns)
+     *  10                   400           0.4         2279
+     *  100                  200           0.6         1554
+     *  1k                   37            0.9         1116
+     *  8k                   5             0.5         2025
+     *  64k                  1             0.0        21649
+     */
+  }
+}