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Ashutosh Chauhan resolved HIVE-1618. ------------------------------------ Resolution: Cannot Reproduce No longer a problem on trunk. Error message is: FAILED: Error in semantic analysis: functions are not supported in order by > Expression in sort by throws NPE > -------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-1618 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1618 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 0.7.0 > Reporter: Paul Yang > > A query such as: > SELECT count(1) FROM src SORT BY count(1); > Will throw a null pointer exception: > 2010-09-07 15:27:27,059 ERROR ql.Driver (SessionState.java:printError(277)) - > FAILED: Hive Internal Error: java.lang.NullPointerException(null) > java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.plan.ExprNodeGenericFuncDesc.newInstance(ExprNodeGenericFuncDesc.java:153) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.TypeCheckProcFactory$DefaultExprProcessor.getXpathOrFuncExprNodeDesc(TypeCheckProcFactory.java:587) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.TypeCheckProcFactory$DefaultExprProcessor.process(TypeCheckProcFactory.java:708) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.lib.DefaultRuleDispatcher.dispatch(DefaultRuleDispatcher.java:89) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.lib.DefaultGraphWalker.dispatch(DefaultGraphWalker.java:88) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.lib.DefaultGraphWalker.walk(DefaultGraphWalker.java:128) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.lib.DefaultGraphWalker.startWalking(DefaultGraphWalker.java:102) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genExprNodeDesc(SemanticAnalyzer.java:6418) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genReduceSinkPlan(SemanticAnalyzer.java:4029) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genBodyPlan(SemanticAnalyzer.java:5148) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genPlan(SemanticAnalyzer.java:5661) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.analyzeInternal(SemanticAnalyzer.java:6229) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.BaseSemanticAnalyzer.analyze(BaseSemanticAnalyzer.java:240) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:326) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira