NPE in "create index" without comment clause in external metastore ------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HIVE-2800 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2800 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: Metastore Affects Versions: 0.8.1, 0.9.0 Reporter: Daniel Dai Priority: Minor This happens only when using external metastore (with --hiveconf hive.metastore.uris=thrift://localhost:8088 --hiveconf hive.metastore.local=false). Also if I gave a comment in the statement, this exception go away. Here is the statement: create index test111 on table hcat_test(name) as 'compact' with deferred rebuild; Here is the stack: 2012-02-10 17:07:42,612 ERROR exec.Task (SessionState.java:printError(380)) - FAILED: Error in metadata: java.lang.NullPointerException org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.createIndex(Hive.java:725) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.createIndex(DDLTask.java:822) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.execute(DDLTask.java:231) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Task.executeTask(Task.java:134) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.TaskRunner.runSequential(TaskRunner.java:57) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.launchTask(Driver.java:1291) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.execute(Driver.java:1082) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:933) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:255) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:212) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:403) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:671) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:554) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:156) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.thrift.protocol.TBinaryProtocol.writeString(TBinaryProtocol.java:185) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.Index.write(Index.java:1032) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$add_index_args.write(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:47518) at org.apache.thrift.TServiceClient.sendBase(TServiceClient.java:63) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Client.send_add_index(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:1675) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$Client.add_index(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:1666) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient.createIndex(HiveMetaStoreClient.java:853) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Hive.createIndex(Hive.java:722) ... 17 more -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira