Github user liancheng commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/12222#discussion_r60923441 --- Diff: sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/catalog/InMemoryCatalog.scala --- @@ -277,9 +277,18 @@ class InMemoryCatalog extends ExternalCatalog { catalog(db).tables(table).partitions(spec) } + /** + * List the metadata of all partitions that belong to the specified table, assuming it exists. + * + * A partial partition spec may optionally be provided to filter the partitions returned. + * For instance, if there exist partitions (a='1', b='2'), (a='1', b='3') and (a='2', b='4'), + * then a partial spec of (a='1') will return the first two only. + * TODO: Currently partialSpec is not used for memory catalog and it returns all the partitions. --- End diff -- Can we throw exception instead of returning all the partitions if a partition spec is given to an in-memory catalog? Silently returning wrong answer can be dangerous.
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