imback82 opened a new pull request #26476: [SPARK-29851][SQL] V2 catalog: 
Change default behavior of dropping namespace to cascade
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/26476
 
 
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   Currently, `SupportsNamespaces.dropNamespace` drops a namespace only if it 
is empty. Thus, to implement a cascading drop, one needs to iterate all objects 
(tables, view, etc.) within the namespace (including its sub-namespaces 
recursively) and drop them one by one. This can have a negative impact on the 
performance when there are large number of objects.
   
   Instead, this PR proposes to change the default behavior of dropping a 
namespace to cascading such that implementing cascading/non-cascading drop is 
simpler without performance penalties.
   
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   The new behavior makes implementing cascading/non-cascading drop simple 
without performance penalties.
   
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   Yes. The default behavior of `SupportsNamespaces.dropNamespace` is now 
cascading.
   
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   Added new unit tests.
   

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