Mir Fazil Mehdi created HIVE-12756: -------------------------------------- Summary: Column Alias Names need to match while using Union All Key: HIVE-12756 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-12756 Project: Hive Issue Type: Improvement Reporter: Mir Fazil Mehdi
The below query fails in Hive without proper error message. If the column alias dont matych between the first and 2 query hive 0.13 is throwing the below error. select 'new' as col1 union all select 'new' as col2; Error: Error while compiling statement: FAILED: NullPointerException null (state=42000,code=40000) Whereas Oracle picks the first alias name. select 'new' as col1 from dual union all select 'new' as col2 from dual; In my use case we have lot of oracle queries being converted to hive, but users are facing difficulties to find out the actual error sometimes. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)