GitHub user cloud-fan opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/16388
[SPARK-18989][SQL] DESC TABLE should not fail with format class not found ## What changes were proposed in this pull request? When we describe a table, we only wanna see the information of this table, not read it, so it's ok even if the format class is not present at the classpath. ## How was this patch tested? new regression test You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/cloud-fan/spark hive Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/16388.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #16388 ---- commit 7eda122faae2ff7d5cb84e3e579ca43f9bd1214a Author: Wenchen Fan <wenc...@databricks.com> Date: 2016-12-23T13:51:18Z DESC TABLE should not fail with format class not found ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. --- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: reviews-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: reviews-h...@spark.apache.org