[HIVE-4723] DDLSemanticAnalyzer.addTablePartsOutputs eats several exceptions

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.12.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.14.0
• Assignee: Szehon Ho
• Reporter: Brock Noland
• Created: 12/Jun/13 20:37
• Updated: 13/Nov/14 19:39
• Resolved: 10/Mar/14 04:53

Description

I accidently tried to archive a partition on a non-partitioned table. The error message was bad, hive ate an exception, and NPE'ed.

2013-06-09 16:36:12,628 ERROR parse.DDLSemanticAnalyzer (DDLSemanticAnalyzer.java:addTablePartsOutputs(2899)) - Got HiveException during obtaining list of partitions
2013-06-09 16:36:12,628 ERROR ql.Driver (SessionState.java:printError(383)) - FAILED: NullPointerException null
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.DDLSemanticAnalyzer.addTablePartsOutputs(DDLSemanticAnalyzer.java:2912)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.DDLSemanticAnalyzer.addTablePartsOutputs(DDLSemanticAnalyzer.java:2877)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.DDLSemanticAnalyzer.analyzeAlterTableArchive(DDLSemanticAnalyzer.java:2730)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.DDLSemanticAnalyzer.analyzeInternal(DDLSemanticAnalyzer.java:316)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.BaseSemanticAnalyzer.analyze(BaseSemanticAnalyzer.java:277)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:433)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:337)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:902)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:259)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:216)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:413)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.executeDriver(CliDriver.java:782)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:675)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:614)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:156)

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