Github user clockfly commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/14809#discussion_r77293800 --- Diff: sql/hive/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/HiveExternalCatalog.scala --- @@ -241,10 +241,21 @@ private[spark] class HiveExternalCatalog(conf: SparkConf, hadoopConf: Configurat } // converts the table metadata to Hive compatible format, i.e. set the serde information. - def newHiveCompatibleMetastoreTable(serde: HiveSerDe, path: String): CatalogTable = { + def newHiveCompatibleMetastoreTable(serde: HiveSerDe): CatalogTable = { + val location = if (tableDefinition.tableType == EXTERNAL) { + // When we hit this branch, we are saving an external data source table with hive + // compatible format, which means the data source is file-based and must have a `path`. + val map = new CaseInsensitiveMap(tableDefinition.storage.properties) + assert(map.contains("path"), --- End diff -- assert will be removed during runtime, can we use explicit exception?
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