Right, it is a little confusing here. dropTempTable actually means unregister here. It only deletes the metadata of this table from catalog. But you can still operate this table by using its dataframe.
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 8:27 AM, Andy Davidson < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Jeff > > I was looking for something like ‘unregister’ > > > In SQL you use drop to delete a table. I always though register was a > strange function name. > > Register **-1 = unregister > createTable **-1 == dropTable > > Andy > > From: Jeff Zhang <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at 4:44 PM > To: Andrew Davidson <[email protected]> > Cc: "user @spark" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: what is the pyspark inverse of registerTempTable()? > > >>> sqlContext.registerDataFrameAsTable(df, "table1") > >>> sqlContext.dropTempTable("table1") > > > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 7:40 AM, Andy Davidson < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks >> >> Andy >> > > > > -- > Best Regards > > Jeff Zhang > > -- Best Regards Jeff Zhang
