Github user piaoyats commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/incubator-carbondata/pull/339#discussion_r92345835 --- Diff: core/src/main/java/org/apache/carbondata/core/cache/dictionary/ReverseDictionaryCache.java --- @@ -167,12 +167,9 @@ private Dictionary getDictionary( DictionaryColumnUniqueIdentifier dictionaryColumnUniqueIdentifier) throws CarbonUtilException { Dictionary reverseDictionary = null; - // create column dictionary info object only if dictionary and its - // metadata file exists for a given column identifier - if (!isFileExistsForGivenColumn(dictionaryColumnUniqueIdentifier)) { - throw new CarbonUtilException( - "Either dictionary or its metadata does not exist for column identifier :: " - + dictionaryColumnUniqueIdentifier.getColumnIdentifier()); + // create column dictionary info object only if it is primitive type. + if (dictionaryColumnUniqueIdentifier.getDataType().isComplexType()) { + return null; --- End diff -- So, here logic is right.
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