Hi,
I think I may have run into a Hive bug. And I'm not sure what's causing it
or how to work around it.
The reduce task log contains this exception:
<td><pre>java.io.IOException: java.lang.NullPointerException
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.ExecReducer.reduce(ExecReducer.java:227)
at
org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ReduceTask.runOldReducer(ReduceTask.java:463)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ReduceTask.run(ReduceTask.java:411)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child.main(Child.java:170)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.udf.generic.GenericUDTFExplode.process(GenericUDTFExplode.java:70)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.UDTFOperator.processOp(UDTFOperator.java:98)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.process(Operator.java:386)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.forward(Operator.java:598)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.SelectOperator.processOp(SelectOperator.java:81)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.process(Operator.java:386)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.forward(Operator.java:598)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.LimitOperator.processOp(LimitOperator.java:46)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.process(Operator.java:386)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.forward(Operator.java:598)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.ExtractOperator.processOp(ExtractOperator.java:43)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.process(Operator.java:386)
at
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.ExecReducer.reduce(ExecReducer.java:218)
This works fine for millions of rows of data, but the one row below causes
the whole job to fail. Looking at the row, I don't see anything that
distinguishes it... if I knew what it was about the row that caused a
problem I could filter it out before hand. I don't mind losing one row in a
million.
2010-08-05^A15^A^AUS^A1281022768^Af^A97^Aonline car insurance
quote^Aborderdisorder.com^A\N^A^A1076^B1216^B1480^B1481^B1493^B1496^B1497^B1504^B1509^B1686^B1724^B1729^B1819^B1829^B1906^B1995^B2018^B2025^B421^B426^B428^B433^B436^B449^B450^B452^B462^B508^B530^B-
The source table and query are:
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS tmp3 (
dt STRING,
hr STRING,
fld1 STRING,
fld2 STRING,
stamp BIGINT,
fld3 STRING,
fld4 INT,
rk STRING,
rd STRING,
rq STRING,
kl ARRAY<String>,
receiver_code_list ARRAY<String>
)
ROW FORMAT DELIMITED
STORED AS SEQUENCEFILE;
-- The limit 88 below is so that the one bad row is included, if I limit to
87 it works without failure.
SELECT count(1)
FROM (select receiver_code_list from tmp3 limit 88) tmp5
LATERAL VIEW explode(receiver_code_list) rcl AS receiver_code;
Any tips on what is wrong, or how else I might go about debugging it would
be appreciated. Or a way to have it skip rows that cause errors would be an
acceptable solution as well.
Thanks,
Marc
