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Thejas M Nair commented on HIVE-14298:
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[~ctang.ma]
I am having trouble understanding why the NPE is related to
hive.metastore.limit.partition.request setting.
Do you have the full stack trace for this ?
> NPE could be thrown in HMS when an ExpressionTree could not be made from a
> filter
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> Key: HIVE-14298
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-14298
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Metastore
> Reporter: Chaoyu Tang
> Assignee: Chaoyu Tang
> Fix For: 2.2.0, 2.1.1
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> Attachments: HIVE-14298.patch, HIVE-14298.patch, HIVE-14298.patch
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> In many cases where an ExpressionTree could not be made from a filter (e.g.
> parser fails to parse a filter etc.) and its value is null. But this null is
> passed around and used by a couple of HMS methods which can cause
> NullPointerException.
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