diff --git a/be/src/exec/hdfs-scanner.cc b/be/src/exec/hdfs-scanner.cc
index 2aea6aa09..80b2ce5e8 100644
--- a/be/src/exec/hdfs-scanner.cc
+++ b/be/src/exec/hdfs-scanner.cc
@@ -159,11 +159,11 @@ int HdfsScanner::WriteEmptyTuples(ScannerContext* context,
   }
   if (num_tuples == 0) return 0;
 
+  if (!ExecNode::EvalConjuncts(conjuncts_, num_conjuncts_, row)) return 0;
   if (context_->template_tuple() == NULL) {
     return num_tuples;
   } else {
     row->SetTuple(scan_node_->tuple_idx(), context_->template_tuple());
-    if (!ExecNode::EvalConjuncts(conjuncts_, num_conjuncts_, row)) return 0;
     row = context->next_row(row);
 
     for (int n = 1; n < num_tuples; ++n) {
diff --git a/testdata/workloads/functional-query/queries/QueryTest/hbase-scan-node.test b/testdata/workloads/functional-query/queries/QueryTest/hbase-scan-node.test
index a0918c0da..c46db4341 100644
--- a/testdata/workloads/functional-query/queries/QueryTest/hbase-scan-node.test
+++ b/testdata/workloads/functional-query/queries/QueryTest/hbase-scan-node.test
@@ -412,3 +412,10 @@ tinyint, bigint
 ---- RESULTS
 NULL,990
 ====
+---- QUERY
+# test that conjuncts are evaluated even if no columns are referenced
+select 1 from alltypestiny where 3 > 4
+---- TYPES
+tinyint
+---- RESULTS
+====
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/testdata/workloads/functional-query/queries/QueryTest/hdfs-scan-node.test b/testdata/workloads/functional-query/queries/QueryTest/hdfs-scan-node.test
index 30d9ecc53..f2fe8654b 100644
--- a/testdata/workloads/functional-query/queries/QueryTest/hdfs-scan-node.test
+++ b/testdata/workloads/functional-query/queries/QueryTest/hdfs-scan-node.test
@@ -667,6 +667,13 @@ int, int, int, string
 9,1,2010,'0'
 ====
 ---- QUERY
+# test that conjuncts are evaluated even if no columns are referenced
+select 1 from alltypestiny where 3 > 4
+---- TYPES
+tinyint
+---- RESULTS
+====
+---- QUERY
 # Tests escape characters
 select * from functional.EscapeNoQuotes
 ---- TYPES