Min, It worked on trunk. Are you using branch 0.4.0?
Ning On Nov 10, 2009, at 8:01 PM, Min Zhou wrote: > Hi, guys, > > > hive> create table pokes(foo string, bar int) partitioned by (pt > string); > OK > Time taken: 0.146 seconds > hive> select * from pokes; > Total MapReduce jobs = 1 > Number of reduce tasks is set to 0 since there's no reduce operator > Job Submission failed with exception 'java.lang.NullPointerException > (null)' > FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.ExecDriver > > exception stack from hive.log > java.lang.NullPointerException > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.ExecDriver.addInputPath > (ExecDriver.java:698) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.ExecDriver.addInputPaths > (ExecDriver.java:753) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.ExecDriver.execute > (ExecDriver.java:372) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.execute(Driver.java:379) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:285) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd > (CliDriver.java:123) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine > (CliDriver.java:181) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java: > 287) > 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:165) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobShell.run(JobShell.java:54) > at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:65) > at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:79) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobShell.main(JobShell.java:68) > > > This should be a pitfall of hive, since if the table is not > partitioned, that query will pass. > > > Thanks, > Min > -- > My research interests are distributed systems, parallel computing and > bytecode based virtual machine. > > My profile: > http://www.linkedin.com/in/coderplay > My blog: > http://coderplay.javaeye.com
