gonglinglei created HIVE-19455: ---------------------------------- Summary: Create JDBC External Table NullPointerException Key: HIVE-19455 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-19455 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: JDBC Affects Versions: 3.0.0, 2.3.3 Reporter: gonglinglei
{{JdbcSerDe.initialize}} use {{tbl.containsKey(JdbcStorageConfig.DATABASE_TYPE.getPropertyName())}} to decide whether properties is empty and whether to initialize serde. But when creating a external table without {{hive.sql.database.type}} provided, it will throw a NullPointerException. 2018-05-08T11:21:03,745 ERROR [88c8bc6c-cd5b-4b74-b6d6-242e3cc12165 main] metadata.Table: Unable to get field from serde: org.apache.hive.storage.jdbc.JdbcSerDe java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.MetaStoreUtils.getFieldsFromDeserializer(MetaStoreUtils.java:1426) ~[hive-exec-2.3.3.jar:2.3.3] at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Table.getColsInternal(Table.java:641) ~[hive-exec-2.3.3.jar:2.3.3] -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)