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Carl Steinbach updated HIVE-1947: --------------------------------- Component/s: Query Processor > ORDER BY should support column position expressions > --------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-1947 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1947 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Query Processor > Reporter: Carl Steinbach > > The ORDER BY clause does not support column position expresssions, e.g: > {code} > hive> select a.category_desc from lu_category a join lu_subcateg b on > a.category_id=b.category_id order by 1; > > FAILED: Hive Internal Error: java.lang.NullPointerException(null) > > java.lang.NullPointerException > > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.optimizer.ReduceSinkDeDuplication$ReduceSinkDeduplicateProcFactory > $ReducerReducerProc.getPartitionAndKeyColumnMapping(ReduceSinkDeDuplication.java:406) > > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.optimizer.ReduceSinkDeDuplication$ReduceSinkDeduplicateProcFactory > $ReducerReducerProc.process(ReduceSinkDeDuplication.java:157) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.lib.DefaultRuleDispatcher.dispatch(DefaultRuleDispatcher.java:89) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.lib.DefaultGraphWalker.dispatch(DefaultGraphWalker.java:88) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.lib.DefaultGraphWalker.walk(DefaultGraphWalker.java:128) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.lib.DefaultGraphWalker.startWalking(DefaultGraphWalker.java:102) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.optimizer.ReduceSinkDeDuplication.transform(ReduceSinkDeDuplication.java:88) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.optimizer.Optimizer.optimize(Optimizer.java:83) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.SemanticAnalyzer.analyzeInternal(SemanticAnalyzer.java:6124) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.parse.BaseSemanticAnalyzer.analyze(BaseSemanticAnalyzer.java:125) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:304) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:379) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:138) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:197) > at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:302) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) > at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:156) > {code} > -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira