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Lantao Jin commented on SPARK-29421:
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I will send PR if this enhancement gained +1
> Add an opportunity to change the file format of command CREATE TABLE LIKE
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> Key: SPARK-29421
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-29421
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: SQL
> Affects Versions: 3.0.0
> Reporter: Lantao Jin
> Priority: Major
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> Use CREATE TABLE tb1 LIKE tb2 command to create an empty table tb1 based on
> the definition of table tb2. The most user case is to create tb1 with the
> same schema of tb2. But an inconvenient case here is this command also copies
> the FileFormat from tb2, it cannot change the input/output format and serde.
> Add the ability of changing file format is useful for some scenarios like
> upgrading a table from a low performance file format to a high performance
> one (parquet, orc).
> Here gives two options to enhance it.
> Option1: Add a configuration {{spark.sql.createTableLike.fileformat}}, the
> value by default is "none" which keeps the behaviour same with current --
> copying the file format from source table. After run command SET
> spark.sql.createTableLike.fileformat=parquet or any other valid file format
> defined in {{HiveSerDe}}, {{CREATE TABLE ... LIKE}} will use the new file
> format type.
> Option2: Add syntax {{USING fileformat}} after {{CREATE TABLE ... LIKE}}. For
> example,
> {code}
> CREATE TABLE tb1 LIKE tb2 USING parquet;
> {code}
> If USING keyword is ignored, it also keeps the behaviour same with current --
> copying the file format from source table.
> Both of them can keep its behaviour same with current.
> We use option1 with parquet file format as an enhancement in our production
> thriftserver because we need change many existing SQL scripts without any
> modification. But for community, Option2 could be treated as a new feature
> since it needs user to write additional USING part.
> cc [~dongjoon] [~hyukjin.kwon] [~joshrosen] [~cloud_fan] [~yumwang]
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