Github user liancheng commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/13120#discussion_r63869408 --- Diff: sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/command/createDataSourceTables.scala --- @@ -354,7 +356,27 @@ object CreateDataSourceTableUtils extends Logging { 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 (new CaseInsensitiveMap(options).get("path").isDefined) { + val path = new Path(new CaseInsensitiveMap(options).get("path").get) + val fs = path.getFileSystem(sparkSession.sessionState.newHadoopConf()) + if (fs.exists(path)) { + // if the provided path exists, Hive metastore only takes directory + // as table data location + if (fs.getFileStatus(path).isDirectory) { + Some(path.toUri.toString) + } else { + Some(path.getParent.toUri.toString) + } + } else { + // If the path does not exists yet, it is assumed to be directory + Some(path.toUri.toString) + } + } else { + None + }, --- End diff -- The following line should be enough for `localtionUri`: ```scala locationUri = new CaseInsensitiveMap(options).get("path") ``` Consider the following directory layout containing two Parquet files: ``` /tmp/dir/ part-00001.parquet part-00002.parquet ``` If we pass "/tmp/dir/part-00001.parquet" as file path, the logic above will use the "/tmp/dir/" as `locationUri`, thus "part-00002.parquet" is also included, which is not the expected behavior.
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