<boolean> = <boolean> throws NPE --------------------------------
Key: HIVE-1308 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1308 Project: Hadoop Hive Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 0.6.0 Reporter: Paul Yang Workaround is to just use <boolean> or NOT <boolean> {code} hive> select true=true from src; FAILED: Hive Internal Error: java.lang.NullPointerException(null) java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.udf.generic.GenericUDFUtils$ConversionHelper.<init>(GenericUDFUtils.java:212) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.udf.generic.GenericUDFBridge.initialize(GenericUDFBridge.java:138) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.plan.ExprNodeGenericFuncDesc.newInstance(ExprNodeGenericFuncDesc.java:153) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.TypeCheckProcFactory$DefaultExprProcessor.getXpathOrFuncExprNodeDesc(TypeCheckProcFactory.java:587) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.TypeCheckProcFactory$DefaultExprProcessor.process(TypeCheckProcFactory.java:708) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.lib.DefaultRuleDispatcher.dispatch(DefaultRuleDispatcher.java:89) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.lib.DefaultGraphWalker.dispatch(DefaultGraphWalker.java:88) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.lib.DefaultGraphWalker.walk(DefaultGraphWalker.java:128) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.lib.DefaultGraphWalker.startWalking(DefaultGraphWalker.java:102) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genExprNodeDesc(SemanticAnalyzer.java:6136) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genSelectPlan(SemanticAnalyzer.java:1831) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genSelectPlan(SemanticAnalyzer.java:1663) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genBodyPlan(SemanticAnalyzer.java:4911) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genPlan(SemanticAnalyzer.java:5421) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.analyzeInternal(SemanticAnalyzer.java:5952) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.BaseSemanticAnalyzer.analyze(BaseSemanticAnalyzer.java:126) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:304) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:377) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:138) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:197) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:303) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:156) {code} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira