panbingkun commented on code in PR #43751:
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/43751#discussion_r1495149980
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sql/catalyst/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/sql/connector/catalog/TableCatalog.java:
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@@ -97,6 +102,26 @@ public interface TableCatalog extends CatalogPlugin {
*/
Identifier[] listTables(String[] namespace) throws NoSuchNamespaceException;
+ /**
+ * List the tables in a namespace from the catalog by pattern string.
+ * <p>
+ * If the catalog supports views, this must return identifiers for only
tables and not views.
+ *
+ * @param namespace a multi-part namespace
+ * @param pattern the filter pattern, only '*' and '|' are allowed as
wildcards, others will
+ * follow regular expression convention, case-insensitive
match and white spaces
+ * on both ends will be ignored
Review Comment:
I have looked at the document
`https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-ref-syntax-aux-show-tables.html#parameters`(SHOW
TABLES doc page) and found that the parameter `regex_pattern` in it explains
the `pattern`.
<img width="947" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/apache/spark/assets/15246973/6349db2d-825e-4031-8f3e-4c984673f962";>
Thank you very much for your reminder, Let's refer to it.
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