I am sure we can have a nicer return for the clients submit a jira. Check if one is open first.
On Tuesday, August 2, 2011, <bejoy...@yahoo.com> wrote: > 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 > > ________________________________ > 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 <http://www.flickr.com/photos/ayonsinha/> > Also check out my Blog for answers to commonly asked questions. < http://dailyadvisor.blogspot.com> >
