[HIVE-18786] NPE in Hive windowing functions

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.2, 2.3.3
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0-alpha-1
• Labels: patch
• Target Version/s: 2.4.0
• Assignee: Dongwook Kwon
• Reporter: Michael Bieniosek
• Created: 23/Feb/18 17:50
• Updated: 17/Nov/22 08:54
• Resolved: 29/Jun/18 03:30

Description

When I run a Hive query with windowing functions, if there's enough data I get an NPE.

For example something like this query might break:

select id, created_date, max(created_date) over (partition by id) latest_created_any from ...

The only workaround I've found is to remove the windowing functions entirely.

The stacktrace looks suspiciously similar to HIVE-15278, but I'm in hive-2.3.2 which appears to have the bugfix applied.

 

 Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: Hive Runtime Error while processing row (tag=0) <some row data here>
       at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.tez.ReduceRecordSource.pushRecord(ReduceRecordSource.java:297)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.tez.ReduceRecordProcessor.run(ReduceRecordProcessor.java:317)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.tez.TezProcessor.initializeAndRunProcessor(TezProcessor.java:185)
       ... 14 more

 Caused by: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: Hive Runtime Error while processing row (tag=0) <some row data here>
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.tez.ReduceRecordSource$GroupIterator.next(ReduceRecordSource.java:365)
       at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.tez.ReduceRecordSource.pushRecord(ReduceRecordSource.java:287)
        ... 16 more

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.persistence.PTFRowContainer.first(PTFRowContainer.java:115)
         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.PTFPartition.iterator(PTFPartition.java:114)
         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.udf.ptf.BasePartitionEvaluator.getPartitionAgg(BasePartitionEvaluator.java:200)
         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.udf.ptf.WindowingTableFunction.evaluateFunctionOnPartition(WindowingTableFunction.java:155)
         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.udf.ptf.WindowingTableFunction.iterator(WindowingTableFunction.java:538)
         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.PTFOperator$PTFInvocation.finishPartition(PTFOperator.java:349)
         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.PTFOperator.process(PTFOperator.java:123)
         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.forward(Operator.java:897)
         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.SelectOperator.process(SelectOperator.java:95)
         at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.tez.ReduceRecordSource$GroupIterator.next(ReduceRecordSource.java:356)