[HIVE-4172] JDBC2 does not support VOID type

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.11.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.12.0
• Component/s: HiveServer2, JDBC
• Labels: HiveServer2
• Assignee: Navis Ryu
• Reporter: Navis Ryu
• Created: 14/Mar/13 06:03
• Updated: 01/Nov/14 10:13
• Resolved: 21/Jun/13 02:27

Description

In beeline, "select key, null from src" fails with exception,

org.apache.hive.service.cli.HiveSQLException: Error running query: java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.apache.hive.service.cli.operation.SQLOperation.run(SQLOperation.java:112)
	at org.apache.hive.service.cli.session.HiveSessionImpl.executeStatement(HiveSessionImpl.java:166)
	at org.apache.hive.service.cli.CLIService.executeStatement(CLIService.java:148)
	at org.apache.hive.service.cli.thrift.ThriftCLIService.ExecuteStatement(ThriftCLIService.java:183)
	at org.apache.hive.service.cli.thrift.TCLIService$Processor$ExecuteStatement.getResult(TCLIService.java:1133)
	at org.apache.hive.service.cli.thrift.TCLIService$Processor$ExecuteStatement.getResult(TCLIService.java:1118)
	at org.apache.thrift.ProcessFunction.process(ProcessFunction.java:39)
	at org.apache.thrift.TBaseProcessor.process(TBaseProcessor.java:39)
	at org.apache.hive.service.auth.TSetIpAddressProcessor.process(TSetIpAddressProcessor.java:39)
	at org.apache.thrift.server.TThreadPoolServer$WorkerProcess.run(TThreadPoolServer.java:206)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

Issue Links

• is blocked by: HIVE-4300 ant thriftif generated code that is checkedin is not up-to-date
• is duplicated by: HIVE-2615 CTAS with literal NULL creates VOID type
• is duplicated by: HIVE-4490 HS2 - 'select null ..' fails with NPE