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Peter Vary commented on HIVE-15353:
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[~erwaman]: Thanks for confirming that the issue is solved!
> Metastore throws NPE if StorageDescriptor.cols is null
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> Key: HIVE-15353
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-15353
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 1.1.0, 2.2.0
> Reporter: Anthony Hsu
> Assignee: Anthony Hsu
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: HIVE-15353.1.patch, HIVE-15353.2.patch,
> HIVE-15353.3.patch, HIVE-15353.4.patch, HIVE-15353.5.patch
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> When using the HiveMetaStoreClient API directly to talk to the metastore, you
> get NullPointerExceptions when StorageDescriptor.cols is null in the
> Table/Partition object in the following calls:
> * create_table
> * alter_table
> * alter_partition
> Calling add_partition with StorageDescriptor.cols set to null causes null to
> be stored in the metastore database and subsequent calls to alter_partition
> for that partition to fail with an NPE.
> Null checks should be added to eliminate the NPEs in the metastore.
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