diff --git a/src/functions.rs b/src/functions.rs
index 7bab918b5..345045b8a 100644
--- a/src/functions.rs
+++ b/src/functions.rs
@@ -87,6 +87,16 @@ pub fn approx_percentile_cont_with_weight(
     }
 }
 
+#[pyfunction]
+pub fn avg(expression: PyExpr, distinct: bool) -> PyResult<PyExpr> {
+    let expr = functions_aggregate::expr_fn::avg(expression.expr);
+    if distinct {
+        Ok(expr.distinct().build()?.into())
+    } else {
+        Ok(expr.into())
+    }
+}
+
 #[pyfunction]
 pub fn sum(args: PyExpr) -> PyExpr {
     functions_aggregate::expr_fn::sum(args.expr).into()
@@ -749,7 +759,6 @@ array_fn!(flatten, array);
 array_fn!(range, start stop step);
 
 aggregate_function!(array_agg, ArrayAgg);
-aggregate_function!(avg, Avg);
 aggregate_function!(corr, Correlation);
 aggregate_function!(grouping, Grouping);
 aggregate_function!(max, Max);