fix old bug in MultipleResultsSearcher

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/container-search/src/main/java/com/yahoo/prelude/searcher/MultipleResultsSearcher.java b/container-search/src/main/java/com/yahoo/prelude/searcher/MultipleResultsSearcher.java
index 5a5e9569723..d017cce0d44 100644
--- a/container-search/src/main/java/com/yahoo/prelude/searcher/MultipleResultsSearcher.java
+++ b/container-search/src/main/java/com/yahoo/prelude/searcher/MultipleResultsSearcher.java
@@ -153,9 +153,9 @@ public class MultipleResultsSearcher extends Searcher {
             Result result = execution.search(query);
             // ensure that field sddocname is available
             execution.fill(result); // TODO: Suffices to fill attributes
-
-            initialResult.hits().addErrorsFrom(result.hits());
-
+            if (initialResult != null) {
+                initialResult.hits().addErrorsFrom(result.hits());
+            }
             return result;
         }
     }