Github user yhuai commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/13120#discussion_r63604166 --- Diff: sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/command/createDataSourceTables.scala --- @@ -348,13 +349,23 @@ object CreateDataSourceTableUtils extends Logging { className = provider, options = options) - def newSparkSQLSpecificMetastoreTable(): CatalogTable = { + def newSparkSQLSpecificMetastoreTable(relation: HadoopFsRelation): CatalogTable = { CatalogTable( identifier = tableIdent, tableType = tableType, schema = Nil, storage = CatalogStorageFormat( - locationUri = None, + // We don't want Hive metastore to implicitly create a table directory, + // which may be not the one Data Source table is referring to, + // yet which will be left behind when the table is dropped for an external table + locationUri = if (isExternal) { --- End diff -- I think what we can do is to check if the options contains `path`. If so, we put that at here. Otherwise, we leave locationUri as None.
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