[HIVE-15911] Create a view based on another view throws an exception “FAILED: NullPointerException null”

• Type: Bug
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.1
• Component/s: Views

Environment

hive2.1.0

• Release Note: In the analyzeInternal method of the SemanticAnalyzer class, call setColumnAccessInfo method to get column information.
• Assignee: yangfang Assign to me
• Reporter: yangfang
• Created: 14/Feb/17 11:26
• Updated: 08/Feb/18 01:41

Description

when I create a new view based on another view I an exception “FAILED: NullPointerException null”:

hive> create view view2(a,b) as select a, b from view1; //view1 is another view
FAILED: NullPointerException null
hive>

The hive log show error stack：
2017-02-15T15:40:25,816 ERROR ql.Driver (SessionState.java:printError(1116)) - FAILED: NullPointerException null
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.doAuthorization(Driver.java:863)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:552)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compileInternal(Driver.java:1319)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:1459)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1239)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1229)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:233)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:184)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:403)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.executeDriver(CliDriver.java:821)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:759)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:686)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.run(RunJar.java:221)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:136)