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Harish Butani commented on HIVE-5899: ------------------------------------- +1 > NPE during explain extended with char/varchar columns > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-5899 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5899 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Statistics > Reporter: Jason Dere > Assignee: Jason Dere > Attachments: HIVE-5899.1.patch > > > Running analyze table .. for columns with char/varchar columns and > subsequently trying to run explain extended will get a NullPointerException > when Hive tries to annotate the operator tree with stats: > 2013-11-26 01:53:06,682 ERROR ql.Driver (SessionState.java:printError(440)) - > FAILED: NullPointerException null > java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ColumnStatisticsData.getFieldDesc(ColumnStatisticsData.java:367) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.ColumnStatisticsData.getStringStats(ColumnStatisticsData.java:444) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.stats.StatsUtils.getColStatistics(StatsUtils.java:414) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.stats.StatsUtils.getTableColumnStatsForColumn(StatsUtils.java:369) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.stats.StatsUtils.getTableColumnStats(StatsUtils.java:465) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.stats.StatsUtils.collectStatistics(StatsUtils.java:109) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.optimizer.stats.annotation.StatsRulesProcFactory$TableScanStatsRule.process(StatsRulesProcFactory.java:102) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.lib.DefaultRuleDispatcher.dispatch(DefaultRuleDispatcher.java:90) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.lib.DefaultGraphWalker.dispatchAndReturn(DefaultGraphWalker.java:94) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.lib.DefaultGraphWalker.dispatch(DefaultGraphWalker.java:78) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.lib.PreOrderWalker.walk(PreOrderWalker.java:54) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.lib.DefaultGraphWalker.startWalking(DefaultGraphWalker.java:109) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.optimizer.stats.annotation.AnnotateWithStatistics.transform(AnnotateWithStatistics.java:76) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.optimizer.Optimizer.optimize(Optimizer.java:136) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.analyzeInternal(SemanticAnalyzer.java:8913) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.BaseSemanticAnalyzer.analyze(BaseSemanticAnalyzer.java:292) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.ExplainSemanticAnalyzer.analyzeInternal(ExplainSemanticAnalyzer.java:65) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.BaseSemanticAnalyzer.analyze(BaseSemanticAnalyzer.java:292) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:441) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:341) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:994) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:905) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:268) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:220) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:422) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.executeDriver(CliDriver.java:790) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:684) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:623) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) > at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:212) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1#6144)