Github user rxin commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1118#discussion_r13954661 --- Diff: sql/hive/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/HiveStrategies.scala --- @@ -81,6 +81,20 @@ private[hive] trait HiveStrategies { def apply(plan: LogicalPlan): Seq[SparkPlan] = plan match { case logical.NativeCommand(sql) => NativeCommand(sql, plan.output)(context) :: Nil + case describe: logical.DescribeCommand => { + val resolvedTable = context.executePlan(describe.table).analyzed + resolvedTable match { + case t: MetastoreRelation => + Seq(DescribeHiveTableCommand( + t, describe.output, describe.isFormatted, describe.isExtended)(context)) + case o: LogicalPlan => + if (describe.isFormatted) --- End diff -- Maybe for non metastore tables, we can just added some formatted/extended information saying they are registered as temporary tables? Then we can get rid of the extra lines here ...
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