diff --git a/spec/ParseQuery.Aggregate.spec.js b/spec/ParseQuery.Aggregate.spec.js
index 5987399a42..f29bad996c 100644
--- a/spec/ParseQuery.Aggregate.spec.js
+++ b/spec/ParseQuery.Aggregate.spec.js
@@ -96,6 +96,27 @@ describe('Parse.Query Aggregate testing', () => {
       }).catch(done.fail);
   });
 
+  it('group by pointer', (done) => {
+    const pointer1 = new TestObject();
+    const pointer2 = new TestObject();
+    const obj1 = new TestObject({ pointer: pointer1 });
+    const obj2 = new TestObject({ pointer: pointer2 });
+    const obj3 = new TestObject({ pointer: pointer1 });
+    const pipeline = [
+      { group: { objectId: '$pointer' } }
+    ];
+    Parse.Object.saveAll([pointer1, pointer2, obj1, obj2, obj3]).then(() => {
+      const query = new Parse.Query(TestObject);
+      return query.aggregate(pipeline);
+    }).then((results) => {
+      expect(results.length).toEqual(3);
+      expect(results.some(result => result.objectId === pointer1.id)).toEqual(true);
+      expect(results.some(result => result.objectId === pointer2.id)).toEqual(true);
+      expect(results.some(result => result.objectId === null)).toEqual(true);
+      done();
+    });
+  });
+
   it('group sum query', (done) => {
     const options = Object.assign({}, masterKeyOptions, {
       body: {
diff --git a/src/Adapters/Storage/Mongo/MongoStorageAdapter.js b/src/Adapters/Storage/Mongo/MongoStorageAdapter.js
index 43a994daa9..b5d97c2de9 100644
--- a/src/Adapters/Storage/Mongo/MongoStorageAdapter.js
+++ b/src/Adapters/Storage/Mongo/MongoStorageAdapter.js
@@ -515,12 +515,26 @@ export class MongoStorageAdapter implements StorageAdapter {
   }
 
   aggregate(className: string, schema: any, pipeline: any, readPreference: ?string) {
+    let isPointerField = false;
+    pipeline = pipeline.map((stage) => {
+      if (stage.$group && stage.$group._id) {
+        const field = stage.$group._id.substring(1);
+        if (schema.fields[field] && schema.fields[field].type === 'Pointer') {
+          isPointerField = true;
+          stage.$group._id = `$_p_${field}`;
+        }
+      }
+      return stage;
+    });
     readPreference = this._parseReadPreference(readPreference);
     return this._adaptiveCollection(className)
       .then(collection => collection.aggregate(pipeline, { readPreference, maxTimeMS: this._maxTimeMS }))
       .then(results => {
         results.forEach(result => {
           if (result.hasOwnProperty('_id')) {
+            if (isPointerField && result._id) {
+              result._id = result._id.split('$')[1];
+            }
             result.objectId = result._id;
             delete result._id;
           }
diff --git a/src/Adapters/Storage/Postgres/PostgresStorageAdapter.js b/src/Adapters/Storage/Postgres/PostgresStorageAdapter.js
index e46fcec73b..601ac64505 100644
--- a/src/Adapters/Storage/Postgres/PostgresStorageAdapter.js
+++ b/src/Adapters/Storage/Postgres/PostgresStorageAdapter.js
@@ -754,13 +754,13 @@ export class PostgresStorageAdapter implements StorageAdapter {
     debug('schemaUpgrade', { className, schema });
     conn = conn || this._client;
     const self = this;
-    
+
     return conn.tx('schema-upgrade', function * (t) {
       const columns = yield t.map('SELECT column_name FROM information_schema.columns WHERE table_name = $<className>', { className }, a => a.column_name);
       const newColumns = Object.keys(schema.fields)
         .filter(item => columns.indexOf(item) === -1)
         .map(fieldName => self.addFieldIfNotExists(className, fieldName, schema.fields[fieldName], t));
-      
+
       yield t.batch(newColumns);
     });
   }
@@ -896,7 +896,7 @@ export class PostgresStorageAdapter implements StorageAdapter {
     return this._client.any('SELECT * FROM "_SCHEMA" WHERE "className"=$<className>', { className })
       .then(result => {
         if (result.length !== 1) {
-          throw undefined;          
+          throw undefined;
         }
         return result[0].schema;
       })
@@ -1267,12 +1267,12 @@ export class PostgresStorageAdapter implements StorageAdapter {
     const createValue = Object.assign({}, query, update);
     return this.createObject(className, schema, createValue)
       .catch(error => {
-      // ignore duplicate value errors as it's upsert
-      if (error.code !== Parse.Error.DUPLICATE_VALUE) {
-        throw error;
-      }
-      return this.findOneAndUpdate(className, schema, query, update);
-    });
+        // ignore duplicate value errors as it's upsert
+        if (error.code !== Parse.Error.DUPLICATE_VALUE) {
+          throw error;
+        }
+        return this.findOneAndUpdate(className, schema, query, update);
+      });
   }
 
   find(className: string, schema: SchemaType, query: QueryType, { skip, limit, sort, keys }: QueryOptions) {
@@ -1452,7 +1452,7 @@ export class PostgresStorageAdapter implements StorageAdapter {
           throw error;
         }
         return 0;
-    });
+      });
   }
 
   distinct(className: string, schema: SchemaType, query: QueryType, fieldName: string) {