[HIVE-7938] Fail early with good error message in LazyBinaryString#init

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Assignee: Lars Francke
• Reporter: Lars Francke
• Created: 02/Sep/14 16:38
• Updated: 23/May/15 02:35

Description

This method seems to be called with illegal parameters from time to time. HIVE-3945 is one example and google shows more. This patch adds a better exception.

I thought about also adding a log statement but I'm not too sure about that. On the other hand the exception message might be swallowed...open for suggestions.