HyukjinKwon commented on a change in pull request #33388:
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/33388#discussion_r671222403
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File path: python/pyspark/sql/catalog.py
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@@ -133,6 +133,35 @@ def listColumns(self, tableName, dbName=None):
isBucket=jcolumn.isBucket()))
return columns
+ def tableExists(self, tableName, dbName=None):
+ """Check if the table or view with the specified name exists.
+ This can either be a temporary view or a table/view.
+
+ .. versionadded:: 3.3.0
+
+ Parameters
+ ----------
+ tableName : string
+ name of the table to check existence
+ dbName : string, optional
+ name of the database to check table existence in.
+ If no database is specified, the current database is used
+
+ Returns
+ -------
+ Boolean indicating whether the table/view exist
+
+ Examples
+ --------
+ >>> spark.catalog.tableExists("unexisting_table")
Review comment:
The testing framework actually run these examples as tests. So the table
would have to be created (and dropped to clean up)
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