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Phabricator commented on HIVE-2795:
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kevinwilfong has closed the revision "HIVE-2795 [jira] View partitions do not
have a storage descriptor".
REVISION DETAIL
https://reviews.facebook.net/D1683
To: JIRA, njain, kevinwilfong
Cc: njain
> View partitions do not have a storage descriptor
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HIVE-2795
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2795
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Metastore
> Reporter: Namit Jain
> Assignee: Kevin Wilfong
> Fix For: 0.9.0
>
> Attachments: ASF.LICENSE.NOT.GRANTED--HIVE-2795.D1683.1.patch,
> ASF.LICENSE.NOT.GRANTED--HIVE-2795.D1683.2.patch,
> ASF.LICENSE.NOT.GRANTED--HIVE-2795.D1683.3.patch
>
>
> Besides being an inconsistency, it causes errors.
> Calling describe formatted on a view partition throws an exception
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Partition.getCols(Partition.java:505)
>
> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.describeTable(DDLTask.java:2570)
> because it does not have a column descriptor, which is part of the storage
> descriptor.
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