Hi everyone, In order to disassociate view metadata from Hive Metastore and support different storage backends, I am proposing a new view catalog API to load, create, alter, and drop views.
Document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XOxFtloiMuW24iqJ-zJnDzHl2KMxipTjJoxleJFz66A/edit?usp=sharing JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-31357 WIP PR: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/28147 As part of a project to support common views across query engines like Spark and Presto, my team used the view catalog API in Spark implementation. The project has been in production over three months. Thanks, John Zhuge
