Looks like there is a bug with mapjoin + view. Please check hive jira to see if there an issue open against this else file a new jira.
From my understanding, When you enable map join, hive parser would create back up jobs. These back up jobs are executed only if map join fails. In normal cases when map join succeeds these jobs are filtered out and not executed. '1116112419, job is filtered out (removed at runtime).' Regards Bejoy KS Sent from remote device, Please excuse typos -----Original Message----- From: Santosh Achhra <santoshach...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 17:11:18 To: <user@hive.apache.org> Reply-To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: View with map join fails Hello, I have created a view as shown below. *CREATE VIEW V1 AS* *select /*+ MAPJOIN(t1) ,MAPJOIN(t2) */ t1.f1, t1.f2, t1.f3, t1.f4, t2.f1, t2.f2, t2.f3 from TABLE1 t1 join TABLE t2 on ( t1.f2= t2.f2 and t1.f3 = t2.f3 and t1.f4 = t2.f4 ) group by t1.f1, t1.f2, t1.f3, t1.f4, t2.f1, t2.f2, t2.f3* View get created successfully however when I execute below mentioned SQL or any SQL on the view get NULLPOINTER exception error *hive> select count (*) from V1;* *FAILED: NullPointerException null* *hive>* Is there anything wrong with the view creation ? Next I created view without MAPJOIN hints *CREATE VIEW V1 AS* *select t1.f1, t1.f2, t1.f3, t1.f4, t2.f1, t2.f2, t2.f3 from TABLE1 t1 join TABLE t2 on ( t1.f2= t2.f2 and t1.f3 = t2.f3 and t1.f4 = t2.f4 ) group by t1.f1, t1.f2, t1.f3, t1.f4, t2.f1, t2.f2, t2.f3* Before executing select SQL I excute *set hive.auto.convert.join=true; * I am getting beloow mentioned warnings java.lang.InstantiationException: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.ASTNodeOrigin Continuing ... java.lang.RuntimeException: failed to evaluate: <unbound>=Class.new(); Continuing ... And I see from log that total 5 mapreduce jobs are started however when don't set auto.convert.join to true, I see only 3 mapreduce jobs getting invoked. *Total MapReduce jobs = 5* *Ended Job = 1116112419, job is filtered out (removed at runtime).* *Ended Job = -33256989, job is filtered out (removed at runtime).* *WARNING: org.apache.hadoop.metrics.jvm.EventCounter is deprecated. Please use org.apache.hadoop.log.metrics.EventCounter in all the log4j.properties files.* Good wishes,always ! Santosh
