rdblue commented on issue #28026: [SPARK-31257][SQL] Unify create table syntax (WIP) URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/28026#issuecomment-606300393 > Spark hides the EXTERNAL TABLE concept from users From [Hive's documentation for managed tables](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Managed+vs.+External+Tables): > The default location can be overridden by the location property during table creation Hive allows `EXTERNAL` with a custom `LOCATION`, so I don't think that Spark should prevent this from being passed to catalogs. A catalog may choose to allow this. Spark can prevent its internal catalog from creating such tables, but it can't prevent them from existing. Since this is a valid configuration for a table, it must be possible to pass this through to a v2 catalog.
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