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Thejas M Nair commented on HIVE-6205:
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> alter <table> partition column throws NPE in authorization
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HIVE-6205
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6205
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Authorization
> Reporter: Navis
> Assignee: Navis
> Attachments: HIVE-6205.1.patch.txt, HIVE-6205.2.patch.txt,
> HIVE-6205.3.patch.txt, HIVE-6205.4.patch.txt, HIVE-6205.5.patch.txt
>
>
> alter table alter_coltype partition column (dt int);
> {noformat}
> 2014-01-15 15:53:40,364 ERROR ql.Driver (SessionState.java:printError(457)) -
> FAILED: NullPointerException null
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.doAuthorization(Driver.java:599)
> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:479)
> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:340)
> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compileInternal(Driver.java:996)
> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:1039)
> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:932)
> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:922)
> 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:424)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.executeDriver(CliDriver.java:792)
> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:686)
> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:625)
> 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:197)
> {noformat}
> Operation for TOK_ALTERTABLE_ALTERPARTS is not defined.
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