[HIVE-18767] Some alterPartitions invocations throw 'NumberFormatException: null'

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.3, 3.1.0, 3.2.0, 4.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.4, 2.4.0, 3.1.1, 3.2.0, 4.0.0-alpha-1
• Component/s: Metastore
• Target Version/s: 2.3.3, 3.1.0, 3.2.0, 4.0.0
• Assignee: Mass Dosage
• Reporter: Yuming Wang
• Created: 22/Feb/18 03:17
• Updated: 17/Nov/22 08:55
• Resolved: 26/Oct/18 11:34

Description

Error messages:

[info] Cause: java.lang.NumberFormatException: null
[info] at java.lang.Long.parseLong(Long.java:552)
[info] at java.lang.Long.parseLong(Long.java:631)
[info] at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.MetaStoreUtils.isFastStatsSame(MetaStoreUtils.java:315)
[info] at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveAlterHandler.alterPartitions(HiveAlterHandler.java:605)
[info] at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStore$HMSHandler.alter_partitions_with_environment_context(HiveMetaStore.java:3837)
[info] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
[info] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
[info] at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
[info] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
[info] at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler.invokeInternal(RetryingHMSHandler.java:148)
[info] at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.RetryingHMSHandler.invoke(RetryingHMSHandler.java:107)
[info] at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy23.alter_partitions_with_environment_context(Unknown Source)
[info] at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.HiveMetaStoreClient.alter_partitions(HiveMetaStoreClient.java:1527)