diff --git a/executor/showtest/show_test.go b/executor/showtest/show_test.go
index 1a20a02868a5d..dfcbe6b670c53 100644
--- a/executor/showtest/show_test.go
+++ b/executor/showtest/show_test.go
@@ -1870,3 +1870,13 @@ func TestShowCollationsLike(t *testing.T) {
 	tk.MustQuery("SHOW COLLATION LIKE 'UTF8MB4_BI%'").Check(testkit.Rows("utf8mb4_bin utf8mb4 46 Yes Yes 1"))
 	tk.MustQuery("SHOW COLLATION LIKE 'utf8mb4_bi%'").Check(testkit.Rows("utf8mb4_bin utf8mb4 46 Yes Yes 1"))
 }
+
+func TestShowViewWithWindowFunction(t *testing.T) {
+	store := testkit.CreateMockStore(t)
+
+	tk := testkit.NewTestKit(t, store)
+	tk.MustExec("use test")
+	tk.MustExec("CREATE TABLE `test1` (`id` int(0) NOT NULL,`num` int(0) DEFAULT NULL) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_bin;")
+	tk.MustExec("create or replace view test1_v as(select id,row_number() over (partition by num) from test1);")
+	tk.MustQuery("desc test1_v;").Check(testkit.Rows("id int(0) NO  <nil> ", "row_number() over (partition by num) bigint(21) YES  <nil> "))
+}
diff --git a/session/session.go b/session/session.go
index c8895ea3b09e1..3708a212954f7 100644
--- a/session/session.go
+++ b/session/session.go
@@ -1226,6 +1226,10 @@ func createSessionFunc(store kv.Storage) pools.Factory {
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, errors.Trace(err)
 		}
+		err = se.sessionVars.SetSystemVar(variable.TiDBEnableWindowFunction, variable.BoolToOnOff(variable.DefEnableWindowFunction))
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, errors.Trace(err)
+		}
 		se.sessionVars.CommonGlobalLoaded = true
 		se.sessionVars.InRestrictedSQL = true
 		// Internal session uses default format to prevent memory leak problem.