Chao created HIVE-9113: -------------------------- Summary: Explain on subquery failed with NPE Key: HIVE-9113 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-9113 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: Query Processor Reporter: Chao
Run explain on the following query: {noformat} select p.p_partkey, li.l_suppkey from (select distinct l_partkey as p_partkey from lineitem) p join lineitem li on p.p_partkey = li.l_partkey where li.l_linenumber = 1 and li.l_orderkey in (select l_orderkey where l_linenumber = li.l_linenumber) ; {noformat} gave me NPE: {noformat} java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.QBSubQuery.validateAndRewriteAST(QBSubQuery.java:516) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genFilterPlan(SemanticAnalyzer.java:2605) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genBodyPlan(SemanticAnalyzer.java:8866) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genPlan(SemanticAnalyzer.java:9745) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genPlan(SemanticAnalyzer.java:9638) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.analyzeInternal(SemanticAnalyzer.java:10125) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.BaseSemanticAnalyzer.analyze(BaseSemanticAnalyzer.java:221) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.ExplainSemanticAnalyzer.analyzeInternal(ExplainSemanticAnalyzer.java:74) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.BaseSemanticAnalyzer.analyze(BaseSemanticAnalyzer.java:221) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:420) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:306) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compileInternal(Driver.java:1108) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:1170) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1045) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1035) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:199) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:151) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:362) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.executeDriver(CliDriver.java:720) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:639) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:578) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:212) {noformat} Is this query not valid? If so, it should at least give some explanations, not just a plain NPE message, and left user clueless. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)