Looks like some configuration problem - this query should have failed at compile time, since it is not referencing any valid partition. Can you send your hive-site.xml ?
On 11/10/09 8:01 PM, "Min Zhou" <[email protected]> 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
