[HIVE-10495] Hive index creation code throws NPE if index table is null

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.0, 1.2.0, 1.2.1
• Assignee: Bing Li
• Reporter: Bing Li
• Created: 27/Apr/15 11:00
• Updated: 07/Jul/17 20:16
• Resolved: 07/Jul/17 20:16

Description

The stack trace would be:

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.add_index(HiveMetaStore.java:2870)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:60)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:37)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:611)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler.invoke(RetryingHMSHandler.java:102)
at $Proxy9.add_index(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient.createIndex(HiveMetaStoreClient.java:962)

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