Github user cloud-fan commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/18849#discussion_r133133656 --- Diff: sql/hive/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/HiveExternalCatalog.scala --- @@ -288,6 +303,7 @@ private[spark] class HiveExternalCatalog(conf: SparkConf, hadoopConf: Configurat // bucket specification to empty. Note that partition columns are retained, so that we can // call partition-related Hive API later. def newSparkSQLSpecificMetastoreTable(): CatalogTable = { + val hiveCompatible = Map(DATASOURCE_HIVE_COMPATIBLE -> "false") --- End diff -- This is a good idea if we do this from the first version. But now, for backward compatibility, we have to handle the case without this special flag at read path, then I can't see the point of having this flag.
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