Github user clockfly commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/14750#discussion_r78494405 --- Diff: sql/hive/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/HiveExternalCatalog.scala --- @@ -93,8 +92,11 @@ private[spark] class HiveExternalCatalog(conf: SparkConf, hadoopConf: Configurat } } - private def requireTableExists(db: String, table: String): Unit = { - withClient { getTable(db, table) } + /** + * Get the raw table metadata from hive metastore directly. + */ + private def getRawTable(db: String, table: String): CatalogTable = withClient { --- End diff -- Is it worthy to create a new method instead of using `client.getTable(db, table)` directly?
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