It's booked on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-3103 and not resolved yet.
2013/4/27 Gang Tim Liu <g...@fb.com>: > Hi Dear all, > > I want to set a configuration in file and pass it to Hive Metastore for > example logic in HiveAlterHandler.java. In order to do that, this > configuration should be in HiveConf.metaVars. > > But, a simple test got NPE. Anyone has experience to pass config from > qfile to Hive metastore? > > Attached has status.q. It has set hive.metastore.ds.retry.interval=2000 > which is part of HiveConf.metaVars. Attached has error.txt. > > If we remove the config line from status.q, it works. > > Thanks > > Tim >