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Sergio Peña commented on HIVE-10597: ------------------------------------ [~sircodesalot] Could you add a q-test for this scenario? > Relative path doesn't work with CREATE TABLE LOCATION 'relative/path' > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-10597 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-10597 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 1.2.0 > Reporter: Reuben Kuhnert > Assignee: Reuben Kuhnert > Priority: Minor > Attachments: HIVE-10597.01.patch, HIVE-10597.02.patch > > > {code} > 0: jdbc:hive2://a2110.halxg.cloudera.com:1000> CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE IF NOT > EXISTS mydb.employees3 like mydb.employees LOCATION 'data/stock'; > Error: Error while processing statement: FAILED: Execution Error, return code > 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. > MetaException(message:java.lang.NullPointerException) (state=08S01,code=1) > 0: jdbc:hive2://a2110.halxg.cloudera.com:1000> CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE IF NOT > EXISTS mydb.employees3 like mydb.employees LOCATION '/user/hive/data/stock'; > No rows affected (0.369 seconds) > {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)