NPE while splitting table with empty column family store --------------------------------------------------------
Key: HBASE-3492 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3492 Project: HBase Issue Type: Bug Components: regionserver Affects Versions: 0.90.0 Reporter: Lars George Priority: Minor I did a simple test on trunk where I create a table (after wiping the local /tmp/hbase-<username>): {code} hbase(main):001:0> create 'testtable', 'cf1', 'cf2' {code} Then I inserted 17k rows: {code} hbase(main):002:0> for i in 'a'..'z' do for j in 'a'..'z' do for k in 'a'..'z' do put 'testtable', "row-#{i}#{j}#{k}", "cf1:#{k}", "#{k}" end end end {code} and then called {code} hbase(main):003:0> split 'testttable' {code} and the logs gave this NPE and -no- split was performed: {code} 2011-01-31 10:06:38,534 DEBUG org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegion: Started memstore flush for testtable,,1296461957099.2528e23534565a83e2c8590d33f3a47c., current region memstore size 3.5m 2011-01-31 10:06:38,575 DEBUG org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegion: Finished snapshotting, commencing flushing stores 2011-01-31 10:06:38,856 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.Store: Renaming flushed file at file:/tmp/hbase-larsgeorge/hbase/testtable/2528e23534565a83e2c8590d33f3a47c/.tmp/5265602271926296451 to file:/tmp/hbase-larsgeorge/hbase/testtable/2528e23534565a83e2c8590d33f3a47c/cf1/5349044325262044918 2011-01-31 10:06:38,861 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.Store: Added file:/tmp/hbase-larsgeorge/hbase/testtable/2528e23534565a83e2c8590d33f3a47c/cf1/5349044325262044918, entries=17576, sequenceid=17588, memsize=3.5m, filesize=549.9k 2011-01-31 10:06:38,863 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegion: Finished memstore flush of ~3.5m for region testtable,,1296461957099.2528e23534565a83e2c8590d33f3a47c. in 328ms, sequenceid=17588, compaction requested=false 2011-01-31 10:06:38,869 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegion: Starting compaction on region testtable,,1296461957099.2528e23534565a83e2c8590d33f3a47c. 2011-01-31 10:06:38,870 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegion: aborted compaction on region testtable,,1296461957099.2528e23534565a83e2c8590d33f3a47c. after 0sec 2011-01-31 10:06:38,872 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.CompactSplitThread: Compaction failed for region testtable,,1296461957099.2528e23534565a83e2c8590d33f3a47c. java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.Store.checkSplit(Store.java:1367) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.Store.compact(Store.java:633) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegion.compactStores(HRegion.java:793) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.CompactSplitThread.run(CompactSplitThread.java:81) 2011-01-31 10:06:38,873 DEBUG org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.CompactSplitThread: Compaction requested for testtable,,1296461957099.2528e23534565a83e2c8590d33f3a47c. because User-triggered split; priority=1, compaction queue size=0 {code} I added a row with data in cf2: {code} hbase(main):005:0> put 'testtable', 'row1', 'cf2', 'test1' {code} and the tried to split the table again like above and now it worked. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira