Hive throws an NPE if hive-default.xml. ---------------------------------------
Key: HIVE-2152 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2152 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: Diagnosability Affects Versions: 0.7.0 Reporter: Joey Echeverria If you don't have hive-default.xml in your classpath, you get the following error when you try to show tables in the the hive shell: hive> show tables; FAILED: Error in metadata: java.lang.NullPointerException FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask It would be a lot more useful to print message indicating that hive-default.xml. This problem will become mute if HIVE-1530 gets accepted. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira