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Xiao Li commented on SPARK-13699: --------------------------------- In RDBMS, I know truncate is much faster than drop-and-then-recreate due to logging issues. How about HIVE? > Spark SQL drops the HIVE table in "overwrite" mode while writing into table > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: SPARK-13699 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-13699 > Project: Spark > Issue Type: Bug > Components: SQL > Affects Versions: 1.6.0 > Reporter: Dhaval Modi > Priority: Blocker > > Hi, > While writing the dataframe to HIVE table with "SaveMode.Overwrite" option. > E.g. > tgtFinal.write.mode(SaveMode.Overwrite).saveAsTable("tgt_table") > sqlContext drop the table instead of truncating. > Thanks & Regards, > Dhaval -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@spark.apache.org