[HIVE-9430] NullPointerException on ALTER TABLE ADD PARTITION if no value given

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.13.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.0
• Component/s: Query Processor
• Assignee: Sergio Peña
• Reporter: Danny Lade
• Created: 21/Jan/15 11:01
• Updated: 18/May/15 19:50
• Resolved: 06/Feb/15 01:00

Description

ALTER TABLE xxx ADD PARTITION (yyy) results in NullPointerException:

2015-01-21 10:31:12,636 ERROR [main]: ql.Driver (SessionState.java:printError(545)) - FAILED: NullPointerException null
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.DDLSemanticAnalyzer.validatePartitionValues(DDLSemanticAnalyzer.java:2999)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.DDLSemanticAnalyzer.analyzeAlterTableAddParts(DDLSemanticAnalyzer.java:2680)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.DDLSemanticAnalyzer.analyzeInternal(DDLSemanticAnalyzer.java:393)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.BaseSemanticAnalyzer.analyze(BaseSemanticAnalyzer.java:327)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:422)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:322)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compileInternal(Driver.java:975)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:1040)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:911)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:901)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:268)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:220)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:423)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.executeDriver(CliDriver.java:792)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:686)
        at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:625)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
        at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:212)

Therefore there is currently no way to add a partition to an already existing table.:

alter table XXX add partition (YYY = 'VALUE');
FAILED: SemanticException table is not partitioned but partition spec exists: {YYY=VALUE}