Ted Yu created HIVE-7599: ---------------------------- Summary: NPE in MergeTask#main() when -format is absent Key: HIVE-7599 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-7599 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Reporter: Ted Yu Priority: Minor
When '-format' is absent from commandline, the following call would result in NPE (format is initialized to null): {code} if (format.equals("rcfile")) { mergeWork = new MergeWork(inputPaths, new Path(outputDir), RCFileInputFormat.class); {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)