Github user cloud-fan commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/15266#discussion_r83788778 --- Diff: sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/rules.scala --- @@ -252,6 +251,8 @@ case class PreprocessTableInsertion(conf: SQLConf) extends Rule[LogicalPlan] { if (expected.dataType.sameType(actual.dataType) && expected.name == actual.name) { actual } else { + // Renaming is needed for handling the INSERT statement like + // INSERT INTO TABLE tab1 SELECT 1, 2 Alias(Cast(actual, expected.dataType), expected.name)() --- End diff -- What if we copy the metadata during alias? Does it work too?
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