Re: Review Request 54341: HIVE-15353: Metastore throws NPE if StorageDescriptor.cols is null

[Anthony Hsu]

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(Updated 十二月 8, 2016, 9:23 p.m.)


Review request for hive.


Changes
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New version no longer updates the Thrift definition but just fixes the NPEs in 
the alter_partition code path.


Bugs: HIVE-15353
    https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-15353


Repository: hive-git


Description (updated)
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Update alter_partition() code path to fix NPEs.


Diffs (updated)
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  metastore/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/HiveAlterHandler.java 
86565a4198d5daced5e230a41d8ada577a656268 
  metastore/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/metastore/MetaStoreUtils.java 
9ea6ac40d6f0eb9081c5cfad982ffc435f15f6fd 

Diff: https://reviews.apache.org/r/54341/diff/


Testing
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After making these changes, I no longer encounter NullPointerExceptions when 
setting cols to null in create_table, alter_table, and alter_partition calls.


Thanks,

Anthony Hsu