Github user Sssan520 commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/carbondata/pull/2656#discussion_r212604083 --- Diff: core/src/main/java/org/apache/carbondata/core/metadata/schema/table/CarbonTable.java --- @@ -1276,4 +1278,13 @@ public static boolean hasMVDataMap(CarbonTable carbonTable) throws IOException { } return false; } + + /** + * if format is 'carbondata' or '' or null, return false + * else return true. + */ + public boolean isExternalFormat() { --- End diff -- fixed
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