Github user jayadevanmurali commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/16083#discussion_r90372901 --- Diff: sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/command/ddl.scala --- @@ -189,14 +189,18 @@ case class DropTableCommand( if (!catalog.isTemporaryTable(tableName) && catalog.tableExists(tableName)) { // If the command DROP VIEW is to drop a table or DROP TABLE is to drop a view // issue an exception. - catalog.getTableMetadata(tableName).tableType match { - case CatalogTableType.VIEW if !isView => - throw new AnalysisException( - "Cannot drop a view with DROP TABLE. Please use DROP VIEW instead") - case o if o != CatalogTableType.VIEW && isView => - throw new AnalysisException( - s"Cannot drop a table with DROP VIEW. Please use DROP TABLE instead") - case _ => + try { + catalog.getTableMetadata(tableName).tableType match { + case CatalogTableType.VIEW if !isView => + throw new AnalysisException( + "Cannot drop a view with DROP TABLE. Please use DROP VIEW instead") + case o if o != CatalogTableType.VIEW && isView => + throw new AnalysisException( + s"Cannot drop a table with DROP VIEW. Please use DROP TABLE instead") + case _ => + } + } catch { + case e: QueryExecutionException => log.warn(e.toString, e) --- End diff -- Hi @gatorsmile, I tested this change against all existing test cases. Also @davies mentioned in the jira itself, we cannot purposefully corrupt the meta data. So I tested and verified, this change will not break any existing test cases. And we are expecting QueryExecutionException when the meta data is get corrupted in some way.
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