[HIVE-16544] NPE during IMPORT when database does not exist

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: repl
• Target Version/s: 3.0.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Prasanth Jayachandran
• Created: 26/Apr/17 22:29
• Updated: 26/Apr/17 22:30

Description

There was some old database from which I exported a table. Recently I dropped this database. When I tried to import the table (for which corresponding database was dropped), NPE is thrown

2017-04-26T17:22:24,374 ERROR [d581f7d4-dba2-4a4f-ad02-1ce089d467d7 main]: ql.Driver (SessionState.java:printError(1126)) - FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10324]: Import Semantic Analyzer Error
org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticException: Import Semantic Analyzer Error
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.ImportSemanticAnalyzer.analyzeInternal(ImportSemanticAnalyzer.java:147)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.BaseSemanticAnalyzer.analyze(BaseSemanticAnalyzer.java:258)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:544)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compileInternal(Driver.java:1345)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:1477)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1261)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1251)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:233)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:184)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:403)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.executeDriver(CliDriver.java:821)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:759)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:686)
	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:498)
	at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.run(RunJar.java:239)
	at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:153)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.hooks.Entity.doComputeName(Entity.java:336)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.hooks.Entity.computeName(Entity.java:330)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.hooks.Entity.<init>(Entity.java:175)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.hooks.WriteEntity.<init>(WriteEntity.java:65)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.ImportSemanticAnalyzer.createRegularImportTasks(ImportSemanticAnalyzer.java:753)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.ImportSemanticAnalyzer.prepareImport(ImportSemanticAnalyzer.java:297)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.ImportSemanticAnalyzer.analyzeInternal(ImportSemanticAnalyzer.java:138)
	... 18 more