You probably need to take a look at the HiveServer2 logs which might have a stack trace for that error.
________________________________ From: Brotanek, Jan <jan.brota...@adastragrp.com> Sent: Friday, December 16, 2016 1:05 PM To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: beeline null pointer exception Hello, I have problem executing following statement in Beeline version 1.2.1000.2.4.0.0-169 by Apache Hive CLI (beeline being invoked with config: --fastConnect=true --hive.cli.errors.ignore=true): create table if not exists test.testorc STORED AS ORC as select * from test.testorc_e ; Error: Error while compiling statement: FAILED: NullPointerException null (state=42000,code=40000). I played around with beeline settings and also with formatting (CR/LF) of query. However still getting that error. In Hive it works perfectly fine... Thanks Jan
