Hi All,
We are trying to create partitioned views on hive partitioned external tables.Tables are partitioned on customerid,orderid where as view is partitioned on customerid.
While trying to add partitions to views, sometimes we will pass already existing customerid.Then we are getting the below error and not understanding why it is not chekcing IF NOT EXISTS and then ignore the partition.
Please suggest what is going wrong here and how to solve this.
Query :
alter view viewname add if not exists partition(customerid=123);
the above query when trying to run is giving the below error:
Error while processing statement: FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. MetaException(message:java.lang.NullPointerException) at org.apache.hive.service.cli.operation.Operation.toSQLException(Operation.java:380) at org.apache.hive.service.cli.operation.SQLOperation.runQuery(SQLOperation.java:257) at org.apache.hive.service.cli.operation.SQLOperation.access$800(SQLOperation.java:91) at org.apache.hive.service.cli.operation.SQLOperation$BackgroundWork$1.run(SQLOperation.java:348) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:422) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1669) at org.apache.hive.service.cli.operation.SQLOperation$BackgroundWork.run(SQLOperation.java:362) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) Caused by: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException:
