Hi all: I have a question when using hive. It's described as follows:
Firstly, I create two table: CREATE TABLE `roncen_tmp`( `a` bigint, `b` bigint, `c` string); CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE `ext_roncen`( `aaa` bigint) LOCATION 'hdfs://xxx/user/hive/warehouse/roncen_tmp' You see, the two tables have the same hdfs location, but they have different schema. Then: When I run a sql which includes the two tables, the exception occur. 2016-06-14 10:16:56,807 INFO [main] org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MapJoinOperator: Initializing child 2 MAPJOIN 2016-06-14 10:16:56,807 INFO [main] org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MapJoinOperator: Initializing Self MAPJOIN[2] 2016-06-14 10:16:56,815 ERROR [main] org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.HashTableDummyOperator: Generating output obj inspector from dummy object error java.lang.RuntimeException: cannot find field aaa from [0:a, 1:b, 2:c] at org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.ObjectInspectorUtils.getStandardStructFieldRef(ObjectInspectorUtils.java:410) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.BaseStructObjectInspector.getStructFieldRef(BaseStructObjectInspector.java:133) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.ExprNodeColumnEvaluator.initialize(ExprNodeColumnEvaluator.java:55) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.JoinUtil.getObjectInspectorsFromEvaluators(JoinUtil.java:68) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.AbstractMapJoinOperator.initializeOp(AbstractMapJoinOperator.java:68) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MapJoinOperator.initializeOp(MapJoinOperator.java:95) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.initialize(Operator.java:385) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.initialize(Operator.java:469) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.initializeChildren(Operator.java:425) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.HashTableDummyOperator.initializeOp(HashTableDummyOperator.java:40) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.initialize(Operator.java:385) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.mr.ExecMapper.configure(ExecMapper.java:144) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setJobConf(ReflectionUtils.java:106) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setConf(ReflectionUtils.java:75) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.newInstance(ReflectionUtils.java:133) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapRunner.configure(MapRunner.java:38) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setJobConf(ReflectionUtils.java:106) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.setConf(ReflectionUtils.java:75) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils.newInstance(ReflectionUtils.java:133) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runOldMapper(MapTask.java:436) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:352) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.YarnChild$2.run(YarnChild.java:162) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:415) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1680) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.YarnChild.main(YarnChild.java:157) 2016-06-14 10:16:56,820 INFO [main] org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.HashTableDummyOperator: Initialization Done 5 HASHTABLEDUMMY 2016-06-14 10:16:56,876 INFO [main] org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.log.PerfLogger: <PERFLOG method=LoadHashtable from=org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MapJoinOperator> 2016-06-14 10:16:56,876 FATAL [main] org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.mr.ExecMapper: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MapJoinOperator.loadHashTable(MapJoinOperator.java:189) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MapJoinOperator.cleanUpInputFileChangedOp(MapJoinOperator.java:216) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.cleanUpInputFileChanged(Operator.java:1051) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.cleanUpInputFileChanged(Operator.java:1055) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.cleanUpInputFileChanged(Operator.java:1055) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.cleanUpInputFileChanged(Operator.java:1055) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MapOperator.process(MapOperator.java:486) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.mr.ExecMapper.map(ExecMapper.java:176) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapRunner.run(MapRunner.java:54) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runOldMapper(MapTask.java:440) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:352) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.YarnChild$2.run(YarnChild.java:162) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:415) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1680) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.YarnChild.main(YarnChild.java:157) I find out the reason is that MapOperator uses the <MapInputPath, MapOpCtx> to store chema infomation. When the same location corresponding to different shema, it will only store the first schema[a,b,c], so it cannot find the column 'aaa'. Do you guys have any idea about this case? Best Wishes!