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Gary Colman updated HIVE-3818:
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Status: Patch Available (was: Open)
> Identify VOID datatype in generated table and notify the user accordingly
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> Key: HIVE-3818
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3818
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Serializers/Deserializers
> Reporter: Gary Colman
> Assignee: Gary Colman
> Priority: Trivial
> Attachments:
> Patch_to_throw_useful_error_msg_for_VOID_datatype_in_created_table.txt
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> Original Estimate: 1h
> Remaining Estimate: 1h
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> When using rcfile as a datastore, generating a table from a select statement
> with a null field results in a void data type, and throws an exception
> (Internal error: no LazyObject for VOID).
> eg.
> set hive.default.fileformat=RCFILE;
> CREATE TABLE test_table AS SELECT NULL, key FROM src;
> Make the message to the user a little more intuitive.
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