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Bennie Schut commented on HIVE-2297: ------------------------------------ >From what I know about the java compiler it will simply stop evaluating the >rest of the line if fstatus != null is false. So the brackets don't add anything. A lot of code is written with this knowledge in mind. > Fix NPE in ConditionalResolverSkewJoin > -------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-2297 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2297 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Vaibhav Aggarwal > Assignee: Vaibhav Aggarwal > Attachments: HIVE-2297.patch, fix_npe.patch > > -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira