[HIVE-12476] Metastore NPE on Oracle with Direct SQL

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.3.0, 2.0.0
• Component/s: Metastore
• Assignee: Jason Dere
• Reporter: Jason Dere
• Created: 20/Nov/15 03:30
• Updated: 16/Feb/16 23:53
• Resolved: 25/Nov/15 23:27

Description

Stack trace looks very similar to HIVE-8485. I believe the metastore's Direct SQL mode requires additional fixes similar to HIVE-8485, around the Partition/StorageDescriptorSerDe parameters.

2015-11-19 18:08:33,841 ERROR [pool-5-thread-2]: server.TThreadPoolServer (TThreadPoolServer.java:run(296)) - Error occurred during processing of message.
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.thrift.protocol.TBinaryProtocol.writeString(TBinaryProtocol.java:200)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.SerDeInfo$SerDeInfoStandardScheme.write(SerDeInfo.java:579)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.SerDeInfo$SerDeInfoStandardScheme.write(SerDeInfo.java:501)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.SerDeInfo.write(SerDeInfo.java:439)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.StorageDescriptor$StorageDescriptorStandardScheme.write(StorageDescriptor.java:1490)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.StorageDescriptor$StorageDescriptorStandardScheme.write(StorageDescriptor.java:1288)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.StorageDescriptor.write(StorageDescriptor.java:1154)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.Partition$PartitionStandardScheme.write(Partition.java:1072)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.Partition$PartitionStandardScheme.write(Partition.java:929)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.Partition.write(Partition.java:825)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$get_partitions_result$get_partitions_resultStandardScheme.write(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:64470)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$get_partitions_result$get_partitions_resultStandardScheme.write(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:64402)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ThriftHiveMetastore$get_partitions_result.write(ThriftHiveMetastore.java:64340)
        at org.apache.thrift.ProcessFunction.process(ProcessFunction.java:53)
        at org.apache.thrift.TBaseProcessor.process(TBaseProcessor.java:39)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.thrift.HadoopThriftAuthBridge$Server$TUGIAssumingProcessor$1.run(HadoopThriftAuthBridge.java:681)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.thrift.HadoopThriftAuthBridge$Server$TUGIAssumingProcessor$1.run(HadoopThriftAuthBridge.java:676)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:422)
        at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1657)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.thrift.HadoopThriftAuthBridge$Server$TUGIAssumingProcessor.process(HadoopThriftAuthBridge.java:676)
        at org.apache.thrift.server.TThreadPoolServer$WorkerProcess.run(TThreadPoolServer.java:285)        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Issue Links

• is related to: HIVE-8485 HMS on Oracle incompatibility