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Phabricator updated HIVE-2795: ------------------------------ Attachment: HIVE-2795.D1683.2.patch kevinwilfong updated the revision "HIVE-2795 [jira] View partitions do not have a storage descriptor". Reviewers: JIRA, njain Added a test to verify calling describe formatted on a view partition succeeds. REVISION DETAIL https://reviews.facebook.net/D1683 AFFECTED FILES metastore/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/HiveMetaStore.java ql/src/test/results/clientpositive/describe_formatted_view_partitioned.q.out ql/src/test/queries/clientpositive/describe_formatted_view_partitioned.q > View partitions do not have a storage descriptor > ------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-2795 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2795 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Namit Jain > Assignee: Kevin Wilfong > Attachments: HIVE-2795.D1683.1.patch, HIVE-2795.D1683.2.patch > > > Besides being an inconsistency, it causes errors. > Calling describe formatted on a view partition throws an exception > java.lang.NullPointerException > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Partition.getCols(Partition.java:505) > > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.describeTable(DDLTask.java:2570) > because it does not have a column descriptor, which is part of the storage > descriptor. -- 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