Re: NullPointerException when dropping database backed by S3

Hi. Do you have access to logs? A callstack would be helpful. From: Marcin Tustin mailto:mtus...@handybook.com>> Reply-To: "user@hive.apache.org" mailto:user@hive.apache.org>> Date: Friday, May 6, 2016 at 09:29 To: "user@hive.apache.org"

Re: NullPointerException when dropping database backed by S3

Hi Marcin, That error coming from Hive metadata. Can you go to that database services_csvs and do show tables? May be an orphan table. Can you drop tables manually? Is it possible that Hive database has some inconsistency. Depending on the issue you can look at what is in table DBS and TBLS in