[HIVE-46] derbyclient.jar and derbytools.jar should be included in hive/lib

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Component/s: Metastore

Environment

Cent OS 5 x86-64 JDK 1.6

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Edward Capriolo
• Created: 02/Oct/08 21:57
• Updated: 08/Dec/11 04:04
• Resolved: 08/Dec/11 04:04

Description

Attempting to use the Derby ClientDriver will cause a null pointer exception because derbyclient.jar and derbytools.jar are not in lib.

hive> show tables;
08/10/02 15:17:12 INFO hive.metastore: Trying to connect to metastore
with URI jdbc:derby://nyhadoop1:1527/metastore_db
FAILED: Error in semantic analysis: java.lang.NullPointerException
08/10/02 15:17:12 ERROR ql.Driver: FAILED: Error in semantic analysis:
java.lang.NullPointerException

derbyclient.jar and derbytools.jar should probably be put in the hive/lib directory. Also this type of exception could happen often with different JDBC libraries the exception should be trapped better