title: Null Pointer Exception from Hive
body: <p>I am able to execute the below query successfully from HIVE prompt.</p>
  
  <pre><code>SELECT * FROM DB1.TABLE1;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But whenever I am trying to execute any other queries like below:</p>
  
  <pre><code>SELECT COL1 FROM DB1.TABLE1 WHERE PARTITION_COL = 201211; 
  
  java.io.IOException: java.io.IOException: java.lang.NullPointerException
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.io.HiveIOExceptionHandlerChain.handleRecordReaderNextException(HiveIOExceptionHandlerChain.java:121)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.io.HiveIOExceptionHandlerUtil.handleRecordReaderNextException(HiveIOExceptionHandlerUtil.java:77)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.shims.HadoopShimsSecure$CombineFileRecordReader.doNextWithExceptionHandler(HadoopShimsSecure.java:304)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.shims.HadoopShimsSecure$CombineFileRecordReader.next(HadoopShimsSecure.java:220)
      at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$TrackedRecordReader.moveToNext(MapTask.java:234)
      at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$TrackedRecordReader.next(MapTask.java:214)
      at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapRunner.run(MapRunner.java:48)
      at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runOldMapper(MapTask.java:434)
      at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:370)
      at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child$4.run(Child.java:255)
      at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:366)
      at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:572)
      at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1502)
      at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child.main(Child.java:249)
  Caused by: java.io.IOException: java.lang.NullPointerException
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.io.HiveIOExceptionHandlerChain.handleRecordReaderNextException(HiveIOExceptionHandlerChain.java:121)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.io.HiveIOExceptionHandlerUtil.handleRecordReaderNextException(HiveIOExceptionHandlerUtil.java:77)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveContextAwareRecordReader.doNext(HiveContextAwareRecordReader.java:344)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.CombineHiveRecordReader.doNext(CombineHiveRecordReader.java:101)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.CombineHiveRecordReader.doNext(CombineHiveRecordReader.java:41)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveContextAwareRecordReader.next(HiveContextAwareRecordReader.java:122)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.shims.HadoopShimsSecure$CombineFileRecordReader.doNextWithExceptionHandler(HadoopShimsSecure.java:302)
      ... 11 more
  Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
      at parquet.hive.MapredParquetInputFormat$RecordReaderWrapper.next(MapredParquetInputFormat.java:303)
      at parquet.hive.MapredParquetInputFormat$RecordReaderWrapper.next(MapredParquetInputFormat.java:199)
      at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.HiveContextAwareRecordReader.doNext(HiveContextAwareRecordReader.java:339)
      ... 15 more
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The table is created in IBM BigSQL environment using the below DDL statement.</p>
  
  <pre><code>CREATE HADOOP TABLE DB1.TABLE1
  (
   COL1 BIGINT NOT NULL,
   COL2 INTEGER NOT NULL,
   COL3 INTEGER NOT NULL,
   COL4 VARCHAR(12096),
   COL5 VARCHAR(12096),
   COL6 VARCHAR(510),
   COL7 VARCHAR(510),
   COL8 VARCHAR(6048),
   COL9 VARCHAR(32)
  )
  PARTITIONED BY (PARTITION_COL INTEGER)
  STORED AS PARQUETFILE;
  </code></pre>