[HIVE-8474] Vectorized reads of transactional tables fail when not all columns are selected

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.14.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.14.0
• Component/s: Transactions, Vectorization
• Assignee: Alan Gates
• Reporter: Alan Gates
• Created: 15/Oct/14 20:35
• Updated: 01/Oct/19 22:07
• Resolved: 22/Oct/14 17:21

Description

create table concur_orc_tab(name varchar(50), age int, gpa decimal(3, 2)) clustered by (age) into 2 buckets stored as orc TBLPROPERTIES ('transactional'='true');
select name, age from concur_orc_tab order by name;

results in

Diagnostic Messages for this Task:
Error: java.io.IOException: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.io.HiveIOExceptionHandlerChain.handleRecordReaderNextException(HiveIOExceptionHandlerChain.java:121)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.io.HiveIOExceptionHandlerUtil.handleRecordReaderNextException(HiveIOExceptionHandlerUtil.java:77)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveContextAwareRecordReader.doNext(HiveContextAwareRecordReader.java:352)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveRecordReader.doNext(HiveRecordReader.java:79)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveRecordReader.doNext(HiveRecordReader.java:33)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveContextAwareRecordReader.next(HiveContextAwareRecordReader.java:115)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$TrackedRecordReader.moveToNext(MapTask.java:199)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$TrackedRecordReader.next(MapTask.java:185)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapRunner.run(MapRunner.java:52)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runOldMapper(MapTask.java:450)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:343)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.YarnChild$2.run(YarnChild.java:163)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:415)
        at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1614)
        at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.YarnChild.main(YarnChild.java:158)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.vector.VectorizedBatchUtil.setNullColIsNullValue(VectorizedBatchUtil.java:63)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.vector.VectorizedBatchUtil.addRowToBatchFrom(VectorizedBatchUtil.java:443)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.vector.VectorizedBatchUtil.addRowToBatch(VectorizedBatchUtil.java:214)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.orc.VectorizedOrcAcidRowReader.next(VectorizedOrcAcidRowReader.java:95)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.orc.VectorizedOrcAcidRowReader.next(VectorizedOrcAcidRowReader.java:43)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveContextAwareRecordReader.doNext(HiveContextAwareRecordReader.java:347)
        ... 13 more

The issue is that the object inspector passed to VectorizedOrcAcidRowReader has all of the columns in the file rather than only the projected columns.