Expression in sort by throws NPE -------------------------------- Key: HIVE-1618 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1618 Project: Hadoop Hive Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 0.7.0 Reporter: Paul Yang
A query such as: SELECT count(1) FROM src SORT BY count(1); Will throw a null pointer exception: 2010-09-07 15:27:27,059 ERROR ql.Driver (SessionState.java:printError(277)) - FAILED: Hive Internal Error: java.lang.NullPointerException(null) java.lang.NullPointerException 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:6418) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genReduceSinkPlan(SemanticAnalyzer.java:4029) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genBodyPlan(SemanticAnalyzer.java:5148) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genPlan(SemanticAnalyzer.java:5661) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.analyzeInternal(SemanticAnalyzer.java:6229) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.BaseSemanticAnalyzer.analyze(BaseSemanticAnalyzer.java:240) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:326) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.