Github user budde commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/16944#discussion_r103050652
--- Diff:
sql/hive/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/HiveExternalCatalog.scala ---
@@ -510,8 +510,13 @@ private[spark] class HiveExternalCatalog(conf:
SparkConf, hadoopConf: Configurat
requireTableExists(db, tableDefinition.identifier.table)
verifyTableProperties(tableDefinition)
+ // Add table metadata such as table schema, partition columns, etc. if
they aren't already
+ // present.
+ val withMetaProps = tableDefinition.copy(
--- End diff --
Sounds reasonable to me. This would be a new public method only for
```HiveExternalCatalog```, correct (i.e. it shouldn't be added to the
```ExternalCatalog``` interface)?
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