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Nishant Kelkar commented on HIVE-8642: -------------------------------------- Stack trace for the exception: {code} 2014-10-29 01:23:36,757 INFO parse.SemanticAnalyzer (SemanticAnalyzer.java:analyzeInternal(8185)) - Starting Semantic Analysis 2014-10-29 01:23:36,757 INFO parse.SemanticAnalyzer (SemanticAnalyzer.java:analyzeInternal(8215)) - Completed phase 1 of Semantic Analysis 2014-10-29 01:23:36,757 INFO parse.SemanticAnalyzer (SemanticAnalyzer.java:getMetaData(951)) - Get metadata for source tables 2014-10-29 01:23:36,771 INFO parse.SemanticAnalyzer (SemanticAnalyzer.java:getMetaData(1036)) - Get metadata for subqueries 2014-10-29 01:23:36,771 INFO parse.SemanticAnalyzer (SemanticAnalyzer.java:getMetaData(1056)) - Get metadata for destination tables 2014-10-29 01:23:36,784 INFO parse.SemanticAnalyzer (SemanticAnalyzer.java:analyzeInternal(8218)) - Completed getting MetaData in Semantic Analysis 2014-10-29 01:23:36,787 ERROR ql.Driver (SessionState.java:printError(427)) - FAILED: NullPointerException null java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.ObjectInspectorUtils.supportsConstantObjectInspector(ObjectInspectorUtils.java:943) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.udf.generic.GenericUDF.initializeAndFoldConstants(GenericUDF.java:115) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.plan.ExprNodeGenericFuncDesc.newInstance(ExprNodeGenericFuncDesc.java:215) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.TypeCheckProcFactory$DefaultExprProcessor.getXpathOrFuncExprNodeDesc(TypeCheckProcFactory.java:781) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.TypeCheckProcFactory$DefaultExprProcessor.process(TypeCheckProcFactory.java:908) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.lib.DefaultRuleDispatcher.dispatch(DefaultRuleDispatcher.java:89) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.lib.DefaultGraphWalker.dispatch(DefaultGraphWalker.java:87) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.lib.DefaultGraphWalker.walk(DefaultGraphWalker.java:124) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.lib.DefaultGraphWalker.startWalking(DefaultGraphWalker.java:101) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.TypeCheckProcFactory.genExprNode(TypeCheckProcFactory.java:166) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genExprNodeDesc(SemanticAnalyzer.java:8459) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genSelectPlan(SemanticAnalyzer.java:2485) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genSelectPlan(SemanticAnalyzer.java:2284) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genPostGroupByBodyPlan(SemanticAnalyzer.java:6843) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genBodyPlan(SemanticAnalyzer.java:6814) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.genPlan(SemanticAnalyzer.java:7547) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.analyzeInternal(SemanticAnalyzer.java:8224) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.BaseSemanticAnalyzer.analyze(BaseSemanticAnalyzer.java:258) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:459) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:349) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:938) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:902) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:259) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:216) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:412) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:759) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:613) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:208) {code} > Hive stack() UDTF Doesn't Support NULL Insert Values > ---------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-8642 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-8642 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: SQL, UDF > Affects Versions: 0.13.0 > Reporter: Nishant Kelkar > Priority: Minor > > The following tables exist: > 1. test_table -- schema {"field_a":STRING, "field_b":STRING, > "field_c":STRING} > 2. dual -- schema {"field_1":INT} > test_table contents: > {code} > en dbpedia http://dbpedia.org/schools/CMU > {code} > dual contents: > {code} > 1 > {code} > I tried the following query, and it fails: > {code} > INSERT INTO TABLE test_table SELECT > stack(1, > "en", > "dbpedia", > NULL > ) AS ( > field_a, > field_b, > field_c > ) FROM dual; > {code} > The error returned: FAILED: NullPointerException null -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)