[jira] [Commented] (SENTRY-719) create external table tablename, if tablename exists, instead of warning user table already exists, throws exception: MetaException(message:java.lang.NullPointerException) (state=08S01,code=1)

["vikas hardia (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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vikas hardia commented on SENTRY-719:
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I am too getting this same error on creating any external table but at the same time i am able to create hive table

> create external table tablename, if tablename exists, instead of warning user table already exists, throws exception: MetaException(message:java.lang.NullPointerException) (state=08S01,code=1) 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SENTRY-719
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SENTRY-719
>             Project: Sentry
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 1.4.0
>            Reporter: Anne Yu
>            Assignee: Prasad Mujumdar
>
> {code}
> 0: jdbc:hive2://a2110.halxg.cloudera.com:1000> CREATE external TABLE employees2(name STRING, salary FLOAT, subordinates ARRAY<STRING>, deductions MAP<STRING, FLOAT>, address STRUCT<street:STRING, city:STRING, state:STRING, zip:INT>) PARTITIONED BY(country STRING, state STRING) ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY '\001' COLLECTION ITEMS TERMINATED BY '\002' MAP KEYS TERMINATED BY '\003' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n' LOCATION '/data/employees';
> Error: Error while processing statement: FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. MetaException(message:java.lang.NullPointerException) (state=08S01,code=1)
> {code}



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