[IMPALA-224] Unknown database for INSERT target table gives frontend NPE

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Impala 0.7
• Fix Version/s: Impala 0.7
• Assignee: Henry Robinson
• Reporter: Henry Robinson
• Created: 10/Apr/13 23:52
• Updated: 11/Apr/13 06:37
• Resolved: 11/Apr/13 06:37

Description

[localhost:21000] >  insert into table unknowndb.foo select 1 from functional.alltypes a
Query: insert into table unknowndb.foo select 1 from functional.alltypes a
ERROR: com.cloudera.impala.common.AnalysisException
        at com.cloudera.impala.analysis.AnalysisContext.analyze(AnalysisContext.java:203)
        at com.cloudera.impala.service.Frontend.createExecRequest(Frontend.java:375)
        at com.cloudera.impala.service.JniFrontend.createExecRequest(JniFrontend.java:125)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.cloudera.impala.analysis.InsertStmt.analyze(InsertStmt.java:77)
        at com.cloudera.impala.analysis.AnalysisContext.analyze(AnalysisContext.java:198)