Github user rajeshbalamohan commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/14537#discussion_r75902767
--- Diff:
sql/hive/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/HiveMetastoreCatalog.scala ---
@@ -237,21 +237,26 @@ private[hive] class
HiveMetastoreCatalog(sparkSession: SparkSession) extends Log
new Path(metastoreRelation.catalogTable.storage.locationUri.get),
partitionSpec)
- val inferredSchema = if (fileType.equals("parquet")) {
- val inferredSchema =
- defaultSource.inferSchema(sparkSession, options,
fileCatalog.allFiles())
- inferredSchema.map { inferred =>
- ParquetFileFormat.mergeMetastoreParquetSchema(metastoreSchema,
inferred)
- }.getOrElse(metastoreSchema)
- } else {
- defaultSource.inferSchema(sparkSession, options,
fileCatalog.allFiles()).get
+ val inferredSchema =
+ defaultSource.inferSchema(sparkSession, options,
fileCatalog.allFiles())
+ val schema = fileType match {
+ case "parquet" =>
+ // For Parquet, get correct schema by merging Metastore schema
data types
+ // and Parquet schema field names.
+ inferredSchema.map { schema =>
+
ParquetFileFormat.mergeMetastoreParquetSchema(metastoreSchema, schema)
+ }.getOrElse(metastoreSchema)
+ case "orc" =>
+ inferredSchema.getOrElse(metastoreSchema)
+ case _ =>
+ inferredSchema.get
--- End diff --
Not sure if exception has to be thrown in this case. Or just return null in
this case?
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