[HIVE-9507] Make "LATERAL VIEW inline(expression) mytable" tolerant to nulls

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.14.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.0
• Component/s: Query Processor, UDF

Environment

hdp 2.2
Windows server 2012 R2 64-bit

• Assignee: Navis Ryu
• Reporter: Moustafa Aboul Atta
• Created: 29/Jan/15 08:24
• Updated: 18/May/15 19:49
• Resolved: 10/Feb/15 06:47

Description

I have tweets stored with avro on hdfs with the default twitter status (tweet) schema.
There's an object called "entities" that contains arrays of structs.
When I run

SELECT mytable.*
FROM tweets
LATERAL VIEW INLINE(entities.media) mytable

I get the exception attached as partial_log.log, however, if I add
WHERE entities.media IS NOT NULL
it runs perfectly.