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Ping Lu updated HIVE-15353:
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    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.



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