[HIVE-4079] Altering a view partition fails with NPE

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.11.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.11.0
• Component/s: Metastore
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Kevin Wilfong
• Reporter: Kevin Wilfong
• Created: 27/Feb/13 02:08
• Updated: 16/May/13 21:10
• Resolved: 28/Feb/13 11:07

Description

Altering a view partition e.g. to add partition parameters, fails with a null pointer exception in the ObjectStore class.

Currently, this is only possible using the metastore Thrift API and there are no testcases for it.