[HIVE-2795] View partitions do not have a storage descriptor

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.0
• Component/s: Metastore
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed

Release Note

Requires upgrade of the metadata corresponding to partitioned views. Please see the comments in metastore/scripts/upgrade/001-HIVE-2795.update_view_partitions.py for more information.

• Assignee: Kevin Wilfong
• Reporter: Namit Jain
• Created: 09/Feb/12 22:10
• Updated: 09/Jan/13 10:23
• Resolved: 10/Feb/12 05:47

Description

Besides being an inconsistency, it causes errors.

Calling describe formatted on a view partition throws an exception

java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Partition.getCols(Partition.java:505)
at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.describeTable(DDLTask.java:2570)

because it does not have a column descriptor, which is part of the storage descriptor.