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Vihang Karajgaonkar commented on HIVE-16944: -------------------------------------------- I can take a look at this [~cartershanklin]. Curious to understand what is the difference between {{metaDbType}} and {{dbType}} > schematool -dbType hive should give some more feedback/assistance > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-16944 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-16944 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Carter Shanklin > > Given the other ways schematool is used, the most obvious guess I would have > for initializing the Hive schema is: > {code} > schematool -metaDbType mysql -dbType hive -initSchema > {code} > Unfortunately that fails with this NPE: > {code} > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.tools.HiveSchemaHelper.getDbCommandParser(HiveSchemaHelper.java:570) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.tools.HiveSchemaHelper.getDbCommandParser(HiveSchemaHelper.java:564) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.tools.HiveSchemaHelper.getDbCommandParser(HiveSchemaHelper.java:560) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.tools.HiveSchemaHelper$HiveCommandParser.<init>(HiveSchemaHelper.java:373) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.tools.HiveSchemaHelper.getDbCommandParser(HiveSchemaHelper.java:573) > at > org.apache.hive.beeline.HiveSchemaTool.getDbCommandParser(HiveSchemaTool.java:165) > at > org.apache.hive.beeline.HiveSchemaTool.<init>(HiveSchemaTool.java:101) > at org.apache.hive.beeline.HiveSchemaTool.<init>(HiveSchemaTool.java:90) > at org.apache.hive.beeline.HiveSchemaTool.main(HiveSchemaTool.java:1166) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) > at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.run(RunJar.java:233) > at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:148) > {code} > Two additional arguments are needed: > -url jdbc:hive2://localhost:10000/default -driver > org.apache.hive.jdbc.HiveDriver > If the user does not supply these for dbType hive, schematool should detect > and error out appropriately, plus give an example of what it's looking for. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)