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Carl Steinbach updated HIVE-2795:
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Release Note: Requires upgrade of the metadata corresponding to partitioned
views. Please see the comments in
metastore/scripts/upgrade/001-HIVE-2795.update_view_partitions.py for more
information.
> View partitions do not have a storage descriptor
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>
> Key: HIVE-2795
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2795
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Metastore
> Reporter: Namit Jain
> Assignee: Kevin Wilfong
> Fix For: 0.9.0
>
> Attachments: HIVE-2795.D1683.1.patch, HIVE-2795.D1683.2.patch,
> HIVE-2795.D1683.3.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.
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