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Nishant Bangarwa commented on HIVE-19172: ----------------------------------------- Note - This was reported by [~abstractdog] > NPE due to null EnvironmentContext in DDLTask > --------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-19172 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-19172 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Task > Reporter: Nishant Bangarwa > Assignee: Nishant Bangarwa > Priority: Major > > Stack Trace - > {code} > 2018-04-11T02:52:51,386 ERROR [5f2e24bf-ac93-4977-84fe-aa2c5f674ea4 main] > exec.DDLTask: java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.alterTable(DDLTask.java:3539) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.execute(DDLTask.java:392) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Task.executeTask(Task.java:199) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.TaskRunner.runSequential(TaskRunner.java:100) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.launchTask(Driver.java:1987) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.execute(Driver.java:1667) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:1414) > {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)