Describe computes statistics, so it will try to query the table. The one you are looking for is df.printSchema()
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Jerrick Hoang <jerrickho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm new to Spark and this question may be trivial or has already been > answered, but when I do a 'describe table' from SparkSQL CLI it seems to > try looking at all records at the table (which takes a really long time for > big table) instead of just giving me the metadata of the table. Would > appreciate if someone can give me some pointers, thanks! > -- Best Regards, Ayan Guha
