cloud-fan commented on a change in pull request #30554:
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/30554#discussion_r533615403



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File path: 
sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/analysis/ResolveSessionCatalog.scala
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@@ -657,14 +659,8 @@ class ResolveSessionCatalog(
       comment: Option[String],
       storageFormat: CatalogStorageFormat,
       external: Boolean): CatalogTable = {
-    if (external) {
-      if (DDLUtils.isHiveTable(Some(provider))) {
-        if (location.isEmpty) {
-          throw new AnalysisException(s"CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE must be 
accompanied by LOCATION")
-        }
-      } else {
-        throw new AnalysisException(s"Operation not allowed: CREATE EXTERNAL 
TABLE ... USING")
-      }
+    if (external && location.isEmpty) {
+      throw new AnalysisException(s"CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE must be accompanied 
by LOCATION")

Review comment:
       I get your point that we want to allow the session catalog plugin to 
overwrite this restriction. I think it's as easy as moving the check to 
`V2SessionCatalog`, but then it's not very related to this PR.




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