dongjoon-hyun commented on a change in pull request #27815: [SPARK-31088][SQL]
Add back HiveContext and createExternalTable
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/27815#discussion_r391182471
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File path: python/pyspark/sql/context.py
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@@ -463,6 +481,53 @@ def streams(self):
return StreamingQueryManager(self._ssql_ctx.streams())
+class HiveContext(SQLContext):
+ """A variant of Spark SQL that integrates with data stored in Hive.
+
+ Configuration for Hive is read from ``hive-site.xml`` on the classpath.
+ It supports running both SQL and HiveQL commands.
+
+ :param sparkContext: The SparkContext to wrap.
+ :param jhiveContext: An optional JVM Scala HiveContext. If set, we do not
instantiate a new
+ :class:`HiveContext` in the JVM, instead we make all calls to this
object.
+
+ .. note:: Deprecated in 2.0.0. Use
SparkSession.builder.enableHiveSupport().getOrCreate().
Review comment:
I believe @gatorsmile should justify this using the new rubric about why
this is `maintenance cost are relatively small`. We are reviewing this PR.
Also, cc @rxin since he is the release manager for 3.0.0.
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