I don't believe Hive supports that join format. Its expecting either a table name or a subquery. If its a subquery, it usually requires it to have a table name alias so it can be referenced in an outer statement.
-Nick Nicholas Szandor Hakobian Data Scientist Rally Health nicholas.hakob...@rallyhealth.com On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Dave Nicodemus <dave.nicode...@gmail.com> wrote: > Using hive 1.2.1.2.3 Connecting using JDBC, issuing the following query : > > SELECT COUNT(*) > FROM nation n > INNER JOIN (customer c > INNER JOIN orders o ON c.c_custkey = o.o_custkey) > ON n.n_nationkey = c.c_nationkey; > > Generates the NPE and stack below. Fields are integer data type > > Does anyone know if this is a known issue and whether it's fixed someplace > ? > > Thanks, > Dave > > Stack > -------- > Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerExcEeption: Remote > java.lang.NullPointerException: null > > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.isPresent(SemanticAnalyzer.java:2046) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.parseJoinCondPopulateAlias(SemanticAnalyzer.java:2109) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.parseJoinCondPopulateAlias(SemanticAnalyzer.java:2185) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.parseJoinCondition(SemanticAnalyzer.java:2445) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.parseJoinCondition(SemanticAnalyzer.java:2386) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genJoinTree(SemanticAnalyzer.java:8192) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genJoinTree(SemanticAnalyzer.java:8131) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genPlan(SemanticAnalyzer.java:9709) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genPlan(SemanticAnalyzer.java:9636) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genOPTree(SemanticAnalyzer.java:10109) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.CalcitePlanner.genOPTree(CalcitePlanner.java:329) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.analyzeInternal(SemanticAnalyzer.java:10120) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.CalcitePlanner.analyzeInternal(CalcitePlanner.java:211) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.BaseSemanticAnalyzer.analyze(BaseSemanticAnalyzer.java:227) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:454) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:314) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compileInternal(Driver.java:1164) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compileAndRespond(Driver.java:1158) > at > org.apache.hive.service.cli.operation.SQLOperation.prepare(SQLOperation.java:110) > > > >
