[MAPREDUCE-1230] Vertica streaming adapter doesn't handle nulls in all cases

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.21.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.21.0
• Component/s: contrib/vertica

Environment

Hadoop 0.21.0 pre-release and Vertica 3.0+

• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Release Note: Fixes null handling in records returned from VerticaInputFormat
• Assignee: Omer Trajman
• Reporter: Omer Trajman
• Created: 21/Nov/09 16:23
• Updated: 24/Aug/10 21:19
• Resolved: 09/Dec/09 10:39

Description

Test user reported that Vertica adapter throws an npe when retrieving null values for certain types (binary, numeric both reported). There is no special case handling when serializing nulls.