[HIVE-9923] No clear message when "from" is missing

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.0
• Assignee: Yongzhi Chen
• Reporter: Jeff Zhang
• Created: 11/Mar/15 07:03
• Updated: 18/May/15 19:53
• Resolved: 21/Apr/15 04:23

Description

For the following sql, "from" is missing but it throw NPE which is not clear for user.

hive> insert overwrite directory '/tmp/hive-3' select sb1.name, sb2.age student_bucketed sb1 join student_bucketed sb2 on sb1.name=sb2.name;
FAILED: NullPointerException null

Issue Links

• duplicates: HIVE-7641 INSERT ... SELECT with no source table leads to NPE