Hi Charlie, Looks like you're running into this problem: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg05533.html
It was fixed in HIVE-636, and this patch is included in hive-0.4.0. Upgrading to 0.4.0 should fix the problem. Thanks. Carl On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Charles Halpern < [email protected]> wrote: > > java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MapOperator.initObjectInspector(MapOperator.java:176) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MapOperator.initializeOp(MapOperator.java:204) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.initialize(Operator.java:264) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.ExecMapper.map(ExecMapper.java:103) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapRunner.run(MapRunner.java:50) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runOldMapper(MapTask.java:356) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:305) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child.main(Child.java:170) > > > > Trying to execute this hine statement: > > insert overwrite table cah_test partition (ds='20091122', source='CS') > select *<various fields>* from src_table where ds='20091122' and > source='CS'; > > > -- > *Charlie Halpern > **Office*: 818-937-5579 > *Cell*: 818-641-8457 > *IM*: [email protected] > >
