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gonglinglei reassigned HIVE-19455: ---------------------------------- Assignee: (was: gonglinglei) > Create JDBC External Table NullPointerException > ----------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-19455 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-19455 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: JDBC > Affects Versions: 3.0.0, 2.3.3 > Reporter: gonglinglei > Priority: Major > > {{JdbcSerDe.initialize}} use > {{tbl.containsKey(JdbcStorageConfig.DATABASE_TYPE.getPropertyName())}} to > decide whether properties is empty and whether to initialize serde. But when > creating a external table > without {{hive.sql.database.type}} provided, it will throw a > NullPointerException. > 2018-05-08T11:21:03,745 ERROR [88c8bc6c-cd5b-4b74-b6d6-242e3cc12165 main] > metadata.Table: Unable to get field from serde: > org.apache.hive.storage.jdbc.JdbcSerDe > java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.MetaStoreUtils.getFieldsFromDeserializer(MetaStoreUtils.java:1426) > ~[hive-exec-2.3.3.jar:2.3.3] > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Table.getColsInternal(Table.java:641) > ~[hive-exec-2.3.3.jar:2.3.3] -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)