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Thejas M Nair commented on HIVE-14298: -------------------------------------- [~ctang.ma] I am having trouble understanding why the NPE is related to hive.metastore.limit.partition.request setting. Do you have the full stack trace for this ? > NPE could be thrown in HMS when an ExpressionTree could not be made from a > filter > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-14298 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-14298 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Metastore > Reporter: Chaoyu Tang > Assignee: Chaoyu Tang > Fix For: 2.2.0, 2.1.1 > > Attachments: HIVE-14298.patch, HIVE-14298.patch, HIVE-14298.patch > > > In many cases where an ExpressionTree could not be made from a filter (e.g. > parser fails to parse a filter etc.) and its value is null. But this null is > passed around and used by a couple of HMS methods which can cause > NullPointerException. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)