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Ping Lu updated HIVE-15353: --------------------------- Description: When using the HiveMetaStoreClient API directly to talk to the metastore, you get NullPointerExceptions when StorageDescriptor.cols is null in the Table/Partition object in the following calls: * create_table * alter_table * alter_partition Calling add_partition with StorageDescriptor.cols set to null causes null to be stored in the metastore database and subsequent calls to alter_partition for that partition to fail with an NPE. Null checks should be added to eliminate the NPEs in the metastore. was: When using the HiveMetaStoreClient API directly to talk to the metastore, you get NullPointerExceptions when StorageDescriptor.cols is null in the Table/Partition object in the following calls: * create_table * alter_table * alter_partition Calling add_partition with StorageDescriptor.cols set to null causes null to be stored in the metastore database and subsequent calls to alter_partition for that partition to fail with an NPE. Null checks should be added to eliminate the NPEs in the metastore. > Metastore throws NPE if StorageDescriptor.cols is null > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-15353 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-15353 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 1.1.0, 2.2.0 > Reporter: Anthony Hsu > Assignee: Anthony Hsu > Priority: Major > Attachments: HIVE-15353.1.patch, HIVE-15353.2.patch, > HIVE-15353.3.patch, HIVE-15353.4.patch > > > When using the HiveMetaStoreClient API directly to talk to the metastore, you > get NullPointerExceptions when StorageDescriptor.cols is null in the > Table/Partition object in the following calls: > * create_table > * alter_table > * alter_partition > Calling add_partition with StorageDescriptor.cols set to null causes null to > be stored in the metastore database and subsequent calls to alter_partition > for that partition to fail with an NPE. > Null checks should be added to eliminate the NPEs in the metastore. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)