[ASTERIXDB-1601] CREATE TYPE failure as NPE (unsupported/untested feature?)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: *DB - AsterixDB, AQL - Translator AQL, DOC - Documentation, FAIL - Failure handling/reporting
• Labels: soon
• Environment: OSX and master
• Assignee: Till Westmann
• Reporter: Michael J. Carey
• Created: 21/Aug/16 17:51
• Updated: 22/Aug/16 04:59

Description

I just tried something that I'd long forgotten about that's documented in the reference manual but basically never used - and it doesn't work. I am thinking we should disable this (and other things like it), perhaps? Here's what I did:

DROP DATAVERSE TinySocial2;
CREATE DATAVERSE TinySocial2;
USE TinySocial2;
CREATE TYPE MyUserTupleType AS CLOSED

{ id: uuid, alias: string?, name: string }

;
CREATE TYPE RenamedType AS MyUserTupleType;

Here's what I got:

Internal error. Please check instance logs for further details. [NullPointerException]