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Vikram Dixit K commented on HIVE-5323: -------------------------------------- Hi Tariq, I am not able to reproduce this issue on trunk or 0.11: select sum(viewtime) , sum(distinct userid) from hive_npe order by 1 asc POSTHOOK: type: QUERY POSTHOOK: Input: default@hive_npe #### A masked pattern was here #### NULL NULL I ran it as a unit test. It may be something to do with your configurations. Are you aware of any specific non-default configuration you might be using? > NPE on executing query with order by 1 asc > ------------------------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-5323 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5323 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: SQL > Affects Versions: 0.11.0 > Environment: MAC OSX > Hive 0.11 > Reporter: tariq rahiman > > I created a table with the below DDL in Hive 0.11 and used order by 1 asc in > a SQL query and got NPE. Details are below: > CREATE TABLE hive_npe(viewTime INT, userid BIGINT, > page_url STRING, referrer_url STRING) > COMMENT 'NPE for Order by 1 ASC' > STORED AS SEQUENCEFILE > ; > select sum(viewtime) , sum(distinct userid) from hive_npe order by 1 asc > ; > I get the below error message > Query returned non-zero code: 40000, cause: FAILED: NullPointerException null -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1#6144)