Github user gatorsmile commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/15024#discussion_r85624636 --- Diff: sql/hive/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/HiveExternalCatalog.scala --- @@ -418,21 +424,41 @@ private[spark] class HiveExternalCatalog(conf: SparkConf, hadoopConf: Configurat } if (DDLUtils.isDatasourceTable(withStatsProps)) { - val oldDef = client.getTable(db, withStatsProps.identifier.table) - // Sets the `schema`, `partitionColumnNames` and `bucketSpec` from the old table definition, - // to retain the spark specific format if it is. Also add old data source properties to table - // properties, to retain the data source table format. - val oldDataSourceProps = oldDef.properties.filter(_._1.startsWith(SPARK_SQL_PREFIX)) + val oldTableDef = client.getTable(db, withStatsProps.identifier.table) + + // Always update the location property w.r.t. the new table location. + val locationProp = tableDefinition.storage.locationUri.map { location => + TABLE_LOCATION -> location + } + // Only update the `locationUri` field if the location is really changed, because this table + // may be not Hive-compatible and can not set the `locationUri` field. We should respect the + // old `locationUri` even it's None. + val oldLocation = getLocationFromRawTable(oldTableDef) + val locationUri = if (oldLocation == tableDefinition.storage.locationUri) { --- End diff -- When we using in-memory catalog, the location is changed for `renameTable` on managed data source tables. It sounds like we are not having the same behavior when using hive external catalog?
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