Github user viirya commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/18849#discussion_r132088495 --- Diff: sql/hive/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/HiveExternalCatalog.scala --- @@ -1175,6 +1205,27 @@ private[spark] class HiveExternalCatalog(conf: SparkConf, hadoopConf: Configurat client.listFunctions(db, pattern) } + /** Detect whether a table is stored with Hive-compatible metadata. */ + private def isHiveCompatible(table: CatalogTable): Boolean = { + val provider = table.provider.orElse(table.properties.get(DATASOURCE_PROVIDER)) + if (provider.isDefined && provider != Some(DDLUtils.HIVE_PROVIDER)) { + table.properties.get(DATASOURCE_HIVE_COMPATIBLE) match { + case Some(value) => + value.toBoolean + case _ => + // If the property is not set, the table may have been created by an old version + // of Spark. Detect Hive compatibility by comparing the table's serde with the + // serde for the table's data source. If they match, the table is Hive-compatible. + // If they don't, they're not, because of some other table property that made it + // not initially Hive-compatible. + HiveSerDe.sourceToSerDe(provider.get) == table.storage.serde --- End diff -- There is a change regarding treating case-sensitive DS tables as Hive-incompatible. Once the given table is this kind of table without the new `DATASOURCE_HIVE_COMPATIBLE` property, we should treat it as Hive compatible or incompatible? Looks like for now we treat it as compatible?
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