Chaoyu Tang created HIVE-9975: --------------------------------- Summary: Renaming a nonexisting partition should not throw out NullPointerException Key: HIVE-9975 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-9975 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Reporter: Chaoyu Tang Assignee: Chaoyu Tang Priority: Minor
Renaming a nonexisting partition should not throw out NullPointerException. create table testpart (col1 int, col2 string, col3 string) partitioned by (part string); alter table testpart partition (part = 'nonexisting') rename to partition (part = 'existing'); we get NPE like following: {code} 15/03/16 10:16:11 ERROR exec.DDLTask: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.renamePartition(DDLTask.java:944) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.execute(DDLTask.java:350) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Task.executeTask(Task.java:160) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.TaskRunner.runSequential(TaskRunner.java:88) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.launchTask(Driver.java:1642) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.execute(Driver.java:1402) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:1187) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1053) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1043) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:207) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:159) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:370) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.executeDriver(CliDriver.java:754) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:675) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:615) FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. null {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)