Ted Yu created HIVE-8523: ---------------------------- Summary: Potential null dereference in DDLSemanticAnalyzer#addInputsOutputsAlterTable() Key: HIVE-8523 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-8523 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Reporter: Ted Yu Priority: Minor
Here is related code: {code} if (desc == null || !AlterTableDesc.doesAlterTableTypeSupportPartialPartitionSpec(desc.getOp())) { throw new SemanticException( ErrorMsg.ALTER_TABLE_TYPE_PARTIAL_PARTITION_SPEC_NO_SUPPORTED, desc.getOp().name()); {code} If desc is null, the construction of SemanticException would trigger NPE due to the call to desc.getOp(). -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)