Figured it out. It was because I was using HiveContext instead of SQLContext. FYI in case others saw the same issue.
From: Judy Nash Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2015 7:38 AM To: 'user@spark.apache.org' Subject: RE: saveAsTable fails on Python with "Unresolved plan found" SPARK-4825<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4825> looks like the right bug, but it should've been fixed on 1.2.1. Is a similar fix needed in Python? From: Judy Nash Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2015 7:26 AM To: user@spark.apache.org<mailto:user@spark.apache.org> Subject: saveAsTable fails on Python with "Unresolved plan found" Hello, I am following the tutorial code on sql programming guide<https://spark.apache.org/docs/1.2.1/sql-programming-guide.html#inferring-the-schema-using-reflection> to try out Python on spark 1.2.1. SaveAsTable function works on Scala bur fails on python with "Unresolved plan found". Broken Python code: from pyspark.sql import SQLContext, Row sqlContext = SQLContext(sc) lines = sc.textFile("data.txt") parts = lines.map(lambda l: l.split(",")) people = parts.map(lambda p: Row(id=p[0], name=p[1])) schemaPeople = sqlContext.inferSchema(people) schemaPeople.saveAsTable("peopletable") saveAsTable fails with Unresolved plan found. org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.errors.package$TreeNodeException: Unresolved plan found, tree: 'CreateTableAsSelect None, pytable, false, None This scala code works fine: from pyspark.sql import SQLContext, Row sqlContext = SQLContext(sc) lines = sc.textFile("data.txt") parts = lines.map(lambda l: l.split(",")) people = parts.map(lambda p: Row(id=p[0], name=p[1])) schemaPeople = sqlContext.inferSchema(people) schemaPeople.saveAsTable("peopletable") Is this a known issue? Or am I not using Python correctly? Thanks, Judy