Chaoyu Tang created HIVE-9975:
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Summary: Renaming a nonexisting partition should not throw out
NullPointerException
Key: HIVE-9975
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-9975
Project: Hive
Issue Type: Bug
Reporter: Chaoyu Tang
Assignee: Chaoyu Tang
Priority: Minor
Renaming a nonexisting partition should not throw out NullPointerException.
create table testpart (col1 int, col2 string, col3 string) partitioned by (part
string);
alter table testpart partition (part = 'nonexisting') rename to partition (part
= 'existing');
we get NPE like following:
{code}
15/03/16 10:16:11 ERROR exec.DDLTask: java.lang.NullPointerException
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.renamePartition(DDLTask.java:944)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.execute(DDLTask.java:350)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Task.executeTask(Task.java:160)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.TaskRunner.runSequential(TaskRunner.java:88)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.launchTask(Driver.java:1642)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.execute(Driver.java:1402)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:1187)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1053)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1043)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:207)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:159)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:370)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.executeDriver(CliDriver.java:754)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:675)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:615)
FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. null
{code}
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