cloud-fan commented on a change in pull request #31524:
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/31524#discussion_r572035577



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File path: docs/sql-ref-syntax-ddl-alter-table.md
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@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ license: |
 
 `ALTER TABLE RENAME TO` statement changes the table name of an existing table 
in the database.
 
+If the table is cached, the commands clear cached data of the table and all 
its dependents that refer to it. The cache will be lazily filled when the next 
time the table or the dependents are accessed.
+The partition rename command keeps table dependents as cached but the table 
rename does not. In this way dependents should be re-cached explicitly after 
table renaming.

Review comment:
       I don't get it. Won't the cache be filled lazily? Why we need to 
re-cache explicitly?




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