diff --git a/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/io/druid/indexer/path/GranularityPathSpec.java b/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/io/druid/indexer/path/GranularityPathSpec.java
index b516c2037b1..daf346b6b8f 100644
--- a/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/io/druid/indexer/path/GranularityPathSpec.java
+++ b/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/io/druid/indexer/path/GranularityPathSpec.java
@@ -151,10 +151,8 @@ public class GranularityPathSpec implements PathSpec
       }
     }
 
-    for (String path : paths) {
-      log.info("Appending path[%s]", path);
-      StaticPathSpec.addToMultipleInputs(config, job, path, inputFormat);
-    }
+    log.info("Appending path %s", paths);
+    StaticPathSpec.addToMultipleInputs(config, job, paths, inputFormat);
 
     return job;
   }
diff --git a/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/io/druid/indexer/path/HadoopGlobPathSplitter.java b/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/io/druid/indexer/path/HadoopGlobPathSplitter.java
index 1684b5b8434..da26b856309 100644
--- a/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/io/druid/indexer/path/HadoopGlobPathSplitter.java
+++ b/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/io/druid/indexer/path/HadoopGlobPathSplitter.java
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@
 
 package io.druid.indexer.path;
 
+import com.google.common.base.Functions;
+import com.google.common.collect.Iterables;
+
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
 
@@ -31,9 +34,9 @@ public class HadoopGlobPathSplitter
    * e.g. splitGlob("/a,/b") -> ["/a","/b"]
    * splitGlob("/a/{c,d}") -> ["/a/c", "/a/d"]
    */
-  public static List<StringBuilder> splitGlob(String path)
+  public static Iterable<String> splitGlob(String path)
   {
-    return splitGlob(new CharStream(path));
+    return Iterables.transform(splitGlob(new CharStream(path)), Functions.toStringFunction());
   }
 
   private static List<StringBuilder> splitGlob(CharStream path)
diff --git a/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/io/druid/indexer/path/StaticPathSpec.java b/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/io/druid/indexer/path/StaticPathSpec.java
index 85210fa2dc3..fd532980ba1 100644
--- a/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/io/druid/indexer/path/StaticPathSpec.java
+++ b/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/io/druid/indexer/path/StaticPathSpec.java
@@ -21,8 +21,13 @@ package io.druid.indexer.path;
 
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonCreator;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
+import com.google.common.base.Strings;
+import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableSet;
+import com.google.common.collect.Iterables;
+import com.google.common.collect.Sets;
 import com.metamx.common.logger.Logger;
 import io.druid.indexer.HadoopDruidIndexerConfig;
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.InputFormat;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job;
@@ -31,6 +36,7 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.MultipleInputs;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.TextInputFormat;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Set;
 
 
 public class StaticPathSpec implements PathSpec
@@ -72,14 +78,26 @@ public class StaticPathSpec implements PathSpec
     return paths;
   }
 
-  public final static void addToMultipleInputs(
+  public static void addToMultipleInputs(
       HadoopDruidIndexerConfig config,
       Job job,
       String path,
       Class<? extends InputFormat> inputFormatClass
   )
   {
-    if (path == null) {
+    if (path != null) {
+      addToMultipleInputs(config, job, ImmutableSet.of(path), inputFormatClass);
+    }
+  }
+
+  public static void addToMultipleInputs(
+      HadoopDruidIndexerConfig config,
+      Job job,
+      Set<String> paths,
+      Class<? extends InputFormat> inputFormatClass
+  )
+  {
+    if (paths == null || paths.isEmpty()) {
       return;
     }
 
@@ -96,9 +114,33 @@ public class StaticPathSpec implements PathSpec
     // MultipleInputs.addInputPath(job, path, inputFormatClassToUse)
     // but have to handle hadoop glob path ourselves correctly
     // This change and HadoopGlobPathSplitter.java can be removed once the hadoop issue is fixed
-    for (StringBuilder sb : HadoopGlobPathSplitter.splitGlob(path)) {
-      MultipleInputs.addInputPath(job, new Path(sb.toString()), inputFormatClassToUse);
+    Set<String> pathStrings = Sets.newLinkedHashSet();
+    for (String path : paths) {
+      Iterables.addAll(pathStrings, HadoopGlobPathSplitter.splitGlob(path));
     }
+    if (!pathStrings.isEmpty()) {
+      addInputPath(job, pathStrings, inputFormatClassToUse);
+    }
+  }
+
+  // copied from MultipleInputs.addInputPath with slight modifications
+  private static void addInputPath(Job job, Iterable<String> pathStrings, Class<? extends InputFormat> inputFormatClass)
+  {
+    Configuration conf = job.getConfiguration();
+    StringBuilder inputFormats = new StringBuilder(Strings.nullToEmpty(conf.get(MultipleInputs.DIR_FORMATS)));
+
+    String[] paths = Iterables.toArray(pathStrings, String.class);
+    for (int i = 0; i < paths.length - 1; i++) {
+      if (inputFormats.length() > 0) {
+        inputFormats.append(',');
+      }
+      inputFormats.append(paths[i]).append(';').append(inputFormatClass.getName());
+    }
+    if (inputFormats.length() > 0) {
+      conf.set(MultipleInputs.DIR_FORMATS, inputFormats.toString());
+    }
+    // add last one separately for possible initialization in MultipleInputs
+    MultipleInputs.addInputPath(job, new Path(paths[paths.length - 1]), inputFormatClass);
   }
 
   @Override
diff --git a/indexing-hadoop/src/test/java/io/druid/indexer/path/HadoopGlobPathSplitterTest.java b/indexing-hadoop/src/test/java/io/druid/indexer/path/HadoopGlobPathSplitterTest.java
index bbbfee01b18..38057266de4 100644
--- a/indexing-hadoop/src/test/java/io/druid/indexer/path/HadoopGlobPathSplitterTest.java
+++ b/indexing-hadoop/src/test/java/io/druid/indexer/path/HadoopGlobPathSplitterTest.java
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@
 package io.druid.indexer.path;
 
 import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
+import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
 import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
-import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
 
 /**
@@ -127,11 +127,6 @@ public class HadoopGlobPathSplitterTest
   }
 
   private static List<String> splitGlob(String path) {
-    List<StringBuilder> tmp = HadoopGlobPathSplitter.splitGlob(path);
-    List<String> result = new ArrayList<>(tmp.size());
-    for(StringBuilder sb : tmp) {
-      result.add(sb.toString());
-    }
-    return result;
+    return Lists.newArrayList(HadoopGlobPathSplitter.splitGlob(path));
   }
 }
diff --git a/indexing-hadoop/src/test/java/io/druid/indexer/path/StaticPathSpecTest.java b/indexing-hadoop/src/test/java/io/druid/indexer/path/StaticPathSpecTest.java
index 53846946dab..7cc9a3fdf20 100644
--- a/indexing-hadoop/src/test/java/io/druid/indexer/path/StaticPathSpecTest.java
+++ b/indexing-hadoop/src/test/java/io/druid/indexer/path/StaticPathSpecTest.java
@@ -20,7 +20,14 @@
 package io.druid.indexer.path;
 
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import io.druid.indexer.HadoopDruidIndexerConfig;
+import io.druid.indexer.HadoopIOConfig;
+import io.druid.indexer.HadoopIngestionSpec;
 import io.druid.jackson.DefaultObjectMapper;
+import io.druid.query.aggregation.AggregatorFactory;
+import io.druid.segment.indexing.DataSchema;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.MultipleInputs;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.TextInputFormat;
 import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.Test;
@@ -41,6 +48,22 @@ public class StaticPathSpecTest
     testSerde("/sample/path", null);
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void testAddingPaths() throws Exception
+  {
+    Job job = new Job();
+    StaticPathSpec pathSpec = new StaticPathSpec("/a/c,/a/b/{c,d}", null);
+
+    DataSchema schema = new DataSchema("ds", null, new AggregatorFactory[0], null, jsonMapper);
+    HadoopIOConfig io = new HadoopIOConfig(null, null, null);
+    pathSpec.addInputPaths(new HadoopDruidIndexerConfig(new HadoopIngestionSpec(schema, io, null)), job);
+
+    String paths = job.getConfiguration().get(MultipleInputs.DIR_FORMATS);
+    String formatter = TextInputFormat.class.getName();
+    String[] expected = {"/a/c;" + formatter, "/a/b/c;" + formatter, "/a/b/d;" + formatter};
+    Assert.assertArrayEquals(expected, paths.split(","));
+  }
+
   private void testSerde(String path, Class inputFormat) throws Exception
   {
     StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();