cloud-fan commented on issue #28026: [SPARK-31257][SQL] Unify create table
syntax (WIP)
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/28026#issuecomment-608510899
I just recalled that we tried to unify Hive table before, to support `CREATE
TABLE ... USING hive`. And we already defined option
cloud-fan commented on issue #28026: [SPARK-31257][SQL] Unify create table
syntax (WIP)
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/28026#issuecomment-607004494
OK let's flip the value of
`spark.sql.legacy.createHiveTableByDefault.enabled` for 3.0, so we have more
time to discuss this PR.
cloud-fan commented on issue #28026: [SPARK-31257][SQL] Unify create table
syntax (WIP)
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/28026#issuecomment-606769368
You made a point that the same problem occurs for `STORED AS`/`ROW FORMAT
DELIMITED`. How are we going to support them in the v2
cloud-fan commented on issue #28026: [SPARK-31257][SQL] Unify create table
syntax (WIP)
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/28026#issuecomment-606746750
`EXTERNAL` is never supported in Spark native tables, and it's intentional.
At least at that time, we thought `EXTERNAL` is a bad
cloud-fan commented on issue #28026: [SPARK-31257][SQL] Unify create table
syntax (WIP)
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/28026#issuecomment-606619877
> Hive allows EXTERNAL with a custom LOCATION, so I don't think that Spark
should prevent this from being passed to catalogs.
cloud-fan commented on issue #28026: [SPARK-31257][SQL] Unify create table
syntax (WIP)
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/28026#issuecomment-604805210
I understand that we want to make Hive implements the v2 API eventually, but
can we focus on syntax unification right now? Let's
