Github user viirya commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/13156#discussion_r63820600
--- Diff:
sql/hivecontext-compatibility/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/HiveContext.scala
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@@ -58,4 +58,16 @@ class HiveContext private[hive](
sparkSession.sharedState.asInstanceOf[HiveSharedState]
}
+ /**
+ * Invalidate and refresh all the cached the metadata of the given
table. For performance reasons,
+ * Spark SQL or the external data source library it uses might cache
certain metadata about a
+ * table, such as the location of blocks. When those change outside of
Spark SQL, users should
+ * call this function to invalidate the cache.
+ *
+ * @since 1.3.0
+ */
+ def refreshTable(tableName: String): Unit = {
--- End diff --
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