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#7,868 opened on Dec 4, 2021
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Description
While writing some adhoc queries, I found the controller query console was throwing a 500 and I was scratching my head about the error until I realized the query was incorrect. I'm not sure if Pinot often 500s on invalid queries, or this is a corner case, but certainly making sure a helpful error is returned is better that informs the user their query is invalid.
For example, I was trying
select $segmentName, count(*)
from table
where $segmentName = 'bar'
Mind, the same error happened when I used actual columns rather than the virtual column.
And it was raising the following exception
java.io.IOException: Failed : HTTP error code : 500
at org.apache.pinot.controller.api.resources.PinotQueryResource.sendPostRaw(PinotQueryResource.java:305)
at org.apache.pinot.controller.api.resources.PinotQueryResource.sendRequestRaw(PinotQueryResource.java:343)
at org.apache.pinot.controller.api.resources.PinotQueryResource.getQueryResponse(PinotQueryResource.java:225)
at org.apache.pinot.controller.api.resources.PinotQueryResource.handlePostSql(PinotQueryResource.java:137))