cloud-fan commented on PR #47364:
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/47364#issuecomment-2345183501

   Hi all, sorry for the late review as I've been struggling with the 
user-facing API. I know we have a lot SHOW commands already but there are known 
issues:
   - It's not standard, but we don't have a choice as Spark doesn't have 
information schema yet.
   - The `SHOW ... LIKE ...` semantic is different from the `LIKE` operator. 
It's also different from Hive's behavior which we copied from.
   - No corresponding DataFrame API.
   - We can't perform transformations with the output, something like `SELECT 
... FROM (SHOW ...)` is not allowed.
   
   Building information schema is a big effort, but for this SHOW COLLATIONS 
feature, can we add a builtin TVF like `SELECT ... FROM all_collations()`? Also 
cc @srielau 


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