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Prasad Mujumdar commented on HIVE-4172: --------------------------------------- I guess the NullPointerException is due to null type name in the Type enum, but then HiveServer2 needs to handle VOID type. [~navis] Please feel free to assign it to me if you are not planning work on this. > JDBC2 does not support VOID type > -------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-4172 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-4172 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: JDBC > Reporter: Navis > Assignee: Navis > Priority: Minor > > In beeline, "select key, null from src" fails with exception, > {noformat} > org.apache.hive.service.cli.HiveSQLException: Error running query: > java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.hive.service.cli.operation.SQLOperation.run(SQLOperation.java:112) > at > org.apache.hive.service.cli.session.HiveSessionImpl.executeStatement(HiveSessionImpl.java:166) > at > org.apache.hive.service.cli.CLIService.executeStatement(CLIService.java:148) > at > org.apache.hive.service.cli.thrift.ThriftCLIService.ExecuteStatement(ThriftCLIService.java:183) > at > org.apache.hive.service.cli.thrift.TCLIService$Processor$ExecuteStatement.getResult(TCLIService.java:1133) > at > org.apache.hive.service.cli.thrift.TCLIService$Processor$ExecuteStatement.getResult(TCLIService.java:1118) > at org.apache.thrift.ProcessFunction.process(ProcessFunction.java:39) > at org.apache.thrift.TBaseProcessor.process(TBaseProcessor.java:39) > at > org.apache.hive.service.auth.TSetIpAddressProcessor.process(TSetIpAddressProcessor.java:39) > at > org.apache.thrift.server.TThreadPoolServer$WorkerProcess.run(TThreadPoolServer.java:206) > at > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) > at > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) > {noformat} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira