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  1. IMPALA
  2. IMPALA-12680

NullPointerException in addHmsPartitions() during MetastoreEventsProcessor switch state from PAUSED to ACTIVE

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    • Bug
    • Status: Resolved
    • Critical
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • None
    • Impala 4.5.0, Impala 4.4.1
    • Catalog
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    Description

      Event processing is paused during a global INVALIDATE METADATA. 
      catalog_.isEventProcessingActive() returns false in this state.
       
      If an AlterTableAddPartition statement is running during that time, we could pass in a null value for the 'partitionToEventId' map in here:

            Map<String, Long> partitionToEventId = catalog_.isEventProcessingActive() ?
                Maps.newHashMap() : null;
            List<Partition> addedHmsPartitions = addHmsPartitionsInTransaction(msClient,
                tbl, allHmsPartitionsToAdd, partitionToEventId, ifNotExists); 

       https://github.com/apache/impala/blob/fcda98ad99c13324e3ab09f2e92d331d0304bb8e/fe/src/main/java/org/apache/impala/service/CatalogOpExecutor.java#L4404-L4407

      If the global INVALIDATE METADATA finishes and event processing is back to the ACTIVE state before the AlterTableAddPartition statement runs into addHmsPartitions(), we will have an non-empty 'partitionToEventSubMap' here:

              List<NotificationEvent> events = getNextMetastoreEventsIfEnabled(eventId,
                      event -> AddPartitionEvent.ADD_PARTITION_EVENT_TYPE
                          .equals(event.getEventType())
                          && msTbl.getDbName().equalsIgnoreCase(event.getDbName())
                          && msTbl.getTableName().equalsIgnoreCase(event.getTableName()));
              Map<Partition, Long> partitionToEventSubMap = Maps.newHashMap();
              getPartitionsFromEvent(events, partitionToEventSubMap);
              // set the eventId to last one which we received so the we fetch the next
              // set of events correctly
              if (!events.isEmpty()) {
                eventId = events.get(events.size() - 1).getEventId();
              }
              if (partitionToEventSubMap.isEmpty()) {
                // if partitions couldn't be fetched from events, use the one returned by
                // add_partitions call above.
                addedHmsPartitions.addAll(addedPartitions);
              } else {
                Preconditions.checkNotNull(partitionToEventId); // <-- This will fail

      https://github.com/apache/impala/blob/fcda98ad99c13324e3ab09f2e92d331d0304bb8e/fe/src/main/java/org/apache/impala/service/CatalogOpExecutor.java#L5052-L5069

      Then the AlterTableAddPartition statement fails with NullPointerException:

      I0104 02:46:32.075830  1010 jni-util.cc:302] 4a4eae34f60ba947:b6b2bcfc00000000] java.lang.NullPointerException
              at com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull(Preconditions.java:889)
              at org.apache.impala.service.CatalogOpExecutor.addHmsPartitions(CatalogOpExecutor.java:5051)
              at org.apache.impala.service.CatalogOpExecutor.addHmsPartitionsInTransaction(CatalogOpExecutor.java:5082)
              at org.apache.impala.service.CatalogOpExecutor.alterTableAddPartitions(CatalogOpExecutor.java:4388)
              at org.apache.impala.service.CatalogOpExecutor.alterTable(CatalogOpExecutor.java:1136)
              at org.apache.impala.service.CatalogOpExecutor.execDdlRequest(CatalogOpExecutor.java:450)
              at org.apache.impala.service.JniCatalog.lambda$execDdl$3(JniCatalog.java:304)
              at org.apache.impala.service.JniCatalogOp.lambda$execAndSerialize$1(JniCatalogOp.java:90)
              at org.apache.impala.service.JniCatalogOp.execOp(JniCatalogOp.java:58)
              at org.apache.impala.service.JniCatalogOp.execAndSerialize(JniCatalogOp.java:89)
              at org.apache.impala.service.JniCatalogOp.execAndSerialize(JniCatalogOp.java:100)
              at org.apache.impala.service.JniCatalog.execAndSerialize(JniCatalog.java:233)
              at org.apache.impala.service.JniCatalog.execAndSerialize(JniCatalog.java:247)
              at org.apache.impala.service.JniCatalog.execDdl(JniCatalog.java:303)

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        1. alterTableAddPartitionProfile.txt
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        3. impalad.INFO.gz
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            hemanth619 Sai Hemanth Gantasala
            stigahuang Quanlong Huang
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