Prasanth Jayachandran created HIVE-16544: --------------------------------------------
Summary: NPE during IMPORT when database does not exist Key: HIVE-16544 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-16544 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: repl Affects Versions: 3.0.0 Reporter: Prasanth Jayachandran There was some old database from which I exported a table. Recently I dropped this database. When I tried to import the table (for which corresponding database was dropped), NPE is thrown {code} 2017-04-26T17:22:24,374 ERROR [d581f7d4-dba2-4a4f-ad02-1ce089d467d7 main]: ql.Driver (SessionState.java:printError(1126)) - FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10324]: Import Semantic Analyzer Error org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticException: Import Semantic Analyzer Error at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.ImportSemanticAnalyzer.analyzeInternal(ImportSemanticAnalyzer.java:147) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.BaseSemanticAnalyzer.analyze(BaseSemanticAnalyzer.java:258) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:544) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compileInternal(Driver.java:1345) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:1477) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1261) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1251) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:233) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:184) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:403) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.executeDriver(CliDriver.java:821) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:759) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:686) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.run(RunJar.java:239) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:153) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.hooks.Entity.doComputeName(Entity.java:336) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.hooks.Entity.computeName(Entity.java:330) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.hooks.Entity.<init>(Entity.java:175) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.hooks.WriteEntity.<init>(WriteEntity.java:65) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.ImportSemanticAnalyzer.createRegularImportTasks(ImportSemanticAnalyzer.java:753) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.ImportSemanticAnalyzer.prepareImport(ImportSemanticAnalyzer.java:297) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.ImportSemanticAnalyzer.analyzeInternal(ImportSemanticAnalyzer.java:138) ... 18 more {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)