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Phabricator updated HIVE-2795:
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Attachment: HIVE-2795.D1683.2.patch
kevinwilfong updated the revision "HIVE-2795 [jira] View partitions do not have
a storage descriptor".
Reviewers: JIRA, njain
Added a test to verify calling describe formatted on a view partition
succeeds.
REVISION DETAIL
https://reviews.facebook.net/D1683
AFFECTED FILES
metastore/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/HiveMetaStore.java
ql/src/test/results/clientpositive/describe_formatted_view_partitioned.q.out
ql/src/test/queries/clientpositive/describe_formatted_view_partitioned.q
> View partitions do not have a storage descriptor
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HIVE-2795
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2795
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Namit Jain
> Assignee: Kevin Wilfong
> Attachments: HIVE-2795.D1683.1.patch, HIVE-2795.D1683.2.patch
>
>
> Besides being an inconsistency, it causes errors.
> Calling describe formatted on a view partition throws an exception
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Partition.getCols(Partition.java:505)
>
> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.describeTable(DDLTask.java:2570)
> because it does not have a column descriptor, which is part of the storage
> descriptor.
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