Hi , We have a scenario to update a table from different set of tables for which we are using hive 0.14.Here are the steps that we are following
1.Parent table is ORC table with ACID property. 2.Delta table has updated records that need to be inserted to parent table(Delta table is also an ORC with ACID property). 3.Insert into table parent select * from delta table. Throws below error : java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveInputFormat.init(HiveInputFormat.java:265) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.CombineHiveInputFormat.getCombineSplits(CombineHiveInputFormat.java:272) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.CombineHiveInputFormat.getSplits(CombineHiveInputFormat.java:509) at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.JobSubmitter.writeOldSplits(JobSubmitter.java:520) at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.JobSubmitter.writeSplits(JobSubmitter.java:512) at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.JobSubmitter.submitJobInternal(JobSubmitter.java:394) at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job$10.run(Job.java:1285) at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job$10.run(Job.java:1282) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:422) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1556) at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job.submit(Job.java:1282) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient$1.run(JobClient.java:562) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient$1.run(JobClient.java:557) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:422) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1556) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.submitJobInternal(JobClient.java:557) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.submitJob(JobClient.java:548) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.mr.ExecDriver.execute(ExecDriver.java:429) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.mr.MapRedTask.execute(MapRedTask.java:137) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Task.executeTask(Task.java:160) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.TaskRunner.runSequential(TaskRunner.java:85) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.launchTask(Driver.java:1604) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.execute(Driver.java:1364) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:1177) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1004) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:994) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:247) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:199) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:410) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.executeDriver(CliDriver.java:783) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:677) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:616) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:483) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:212) Job Submission failed with exception 'java.lang.NullPointerException(null)' FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.mr.MapRedTask MapReduce Jobs Launched: Could you please suggest. Please let us know if further details are needed. Regards, Nitin