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Namit Jain updated HIVE-2747:
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Assignee: (was: Kevin Wilfong)
> UNION ALL with subquery which selects NULL and performs group by fails
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> Key: HIVE-2747
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2747
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Kevin Wilfong
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> Queries like the following
> from (select key, value, count(1) as count from src group by key, value union
> all select NULL as key, value, count(1) as count from src group by value) a
> select count(*);
> fail with the exception
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.StructObjectInspector.toString(StructObjectInspector.java:60)
> at java.lang.String.valueOf(String.java:2826)
> at java.lang.StringBuilder.append(StringBuilder.java:115)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.UnionOperator.initializeOp(UnionOperator.java:110)
> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.initialize(Operator.java:357)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.MapOperator.initializeOp(MapOperator.java:427)
> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Operator.initialize(Operator.java:357)
> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.ExecMapper.configure(ExecMapper.java:98)
> ... 18 more
> This should at least provide a more informative error message if not work.
> It works without the group by.
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