[hive] Provide error message when using UDAF in the place of UDF instead of throwing NPE ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HIVE-2956 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2956 Project: Hive Issue Type: Improvement Reporter: Navis Assignee: Navis Priority: Trivial For example, {code} hive> select distinct deptno, sum(deptno) from emp; FAILED: Hive Internal Error: java.lang.NullPointerException(null) java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.plan.ExprNodeGenericFuncDesc.newInstance(ExprNodeGenericFuncDesc.java:214) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.TypeCheckProcFactory$DefaultExprProcessor.getXpathOrFuncExprNodeDesc(TypeCheckProcFactory.java:767) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.TypeCheckProcFactory$DefaultExprProcessor.process(TypeCheckProcFactory.java:888) 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:125) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.lib.DefaultGraphWalker.startWalking(DefaultGraphWalker.java:102) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.TypeCheckProcFactory.genExprNode(TypeCheckProcFactory.java:165) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genExprNodeDesc(SemanticAnalyzer.java:7755) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genExprNodeDesc(SemanticAnalyzer.java:7713) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genGroupByPlanMapGroupByOperator(SemanticAnalyzer.java:2793) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genGroupByPlanMapAggr1MR(SemanticAnalyzer.java:3651) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genBodyPlan(SemanticAnalyzer.java:6125) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genPlan(SemanticAnalyzer.java:6762) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.analyzeInternal(SemanticAnalyzer.java:7531) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.BaseSemanticAnalyzer.analyze(BaseSemanticAnalyzer.java:250) {code} Trivial.. but people always reports this confused by esoteric custom function names. -- 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