Hi Ayon AFAIK hive is supposed to behave so. If you set the hive.cli.print.header=true for enabling column headers then some commands like 'desc' is not expected to work. Not sure whether there is some patch recently out for this.
Regards Bejoy K S -----Original Message----- From: Ayon Sinha <ayonsi...@yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 17:29:17 To: Hive Mailinglist<user@hive.apache.org> Reply-To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: NPE with hive.cli.print.header=true; With set hive.cli.print.header=true; I get NPE's for "desc" as well as "use" Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:176) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:241) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:456) 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:186) Is there a patch for this? -Ayon See My Photos on Flickr Also check out my Blog for answers to commonly asked questions.