SemanticAnalyzer.genJoinReduceSinkChild fails with NPE unless you specify an un-necessary table alias -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HIVE-2341 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2341 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: Query Processor Affects Versions: 0.7.1 Reporter: Ido Hadanny Priority: Minor Following query: select * from V_EMF_LEARNING_ACTUAL_CHURN join (select count(*) as total from standard_connections) b fails with the NPE listed below. It doesn't if you add an alias to the table like so: select * from V_EMF_LEARNING_ACTUAL_CHURN a join (select count(*) as total from standard_connections) b The exception I'm getting: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genJoinReduceSinkChild(SemanticAnalyzer.java:4440) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genJoinOperator(SemanticAnalyzer.java:4545) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genJoinPlan(SemanticAnalyzer.java:4704) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genPlan(SemanticAnalyzer.java:6011) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.analyzeInternal(SemanticAnalyzer.java:6603) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.BaseSemanticAnalyzer.analyze(BaseSemanticAnalyzer.java:238) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:340) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira