[HIVE-8332] Reading an ACID table with vectorization on results in NPE

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.14.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.14.0
• Component/s: Transactions, Vectorization
• Assignee: Alan Gates
• Reporter: Alan Gates
• Created: 02/Oct/14 17:08
• Updated: 13/Nov/14 19:43
• Resolved: 13/Oct/14 20:44

Description

On a transactional table, insert some data, then with vectorization turned on do a select. The result is:

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.orc.OrcInputFormat$1.getObjectInspector(OrcInputFormat.java:1137) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.orc.VectorizedOrcAcidRowReader.<init>(VectorizedOrcAcidRowReader.java:61) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.orc.OrcInputFormat.getRecordReader(OrcInputFormat.java:1041) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveInputFormat.getRecordReader(HiveInputFormat.java:246)
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