Github user liancheng commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/13270#discussion_r64500677
--- Diff:
sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/catalog/SessionCatalog.scala
---
@@ -216,7 +216,25 @@ class SessionCatalog(
val table = formatTableName(tableDefinition.identifier.table)
val newTableDefinition = tableDefinition.copy(identifier =
TableIdentifier(table, Some(db)))
requireDbExists(db)
- externalCatalog.createTable(db, newTableDefinition, ignoreIfExists)
+
+ if (newTableDefinition.tableType == CatalogTableType.EXTERNAL) {
+ // !! HACK ALERT !!
+ //
+ // See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-15269 for more
details about why we have to
+ // set `locationUri` and then remove the directory after creating
the external table:
+ val tablePath = defaultTablePath(newTableDefinition.identifier)
+ try {
+ externalCatalog.createTable(
+ db,
+ newTableDefinition.withNewStorage(locationUri = Some(tablePath)),
+ ignoreIfExists)
+ } finally {
+ val path = new Path(tablePath)
+ FileSystem.get(path.toUri, hadoopConf).delete(path, true)
+ }
+ } else {
+ externalCatalog.createTable(db, newTableDefinition, ignoreIfExists)
+ }
--- End diff --
Actually it's `<warehouse-dir>/<table-name>-__PLACEHOLDER__`
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