Github user hvanhovell commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/16233#discussion_r94682588 --- Diff: sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/analysis/Analyzer.scala --- @@ -510,32 +539,93 @@ class Analyzer( * Replaces [[UnresolvedRelation]]s with concrete relations from the catalog. */ object ResolveRelations extends Rule[LogicalPlan] { - private def lookupTableFromCatalog(u: UnresolvedRelation): LogicalPlan = { + + // If the unresolved relation is running directly on files, we just return the original + // UnresolvedRelation, the plan will get resolved later. Else we look up the table from catalog + // and change the default database name if it is a view. + // We usually look up a table from the default database if the table identifier has an empty + // database part, for a view the default database should be the currentDb when the view was + // created. When the case comes to resolving a nested view, the view may have different default + // database with that the referenced view has, so we need to use the variable `defaultDatabase` + // to track the current default database. + // When the relation we resolve is a view, we fetch the view.desc(which is a CatalogTable), and + // then set the value of `CatalogTable.viewDefaultDatabase` to the variable `defaultDatabase`, + // we look up the relations that the view references using the default database. + // For example: + // |- view1 (defaultDatabase = db1) + // |- operator + // |- table2 (defaultDatabase = db1) + // |- view2 (defaultDatabase = db2) + // |- view3 (defaultDatabase = db3) + // |- view4 (defaultDatabase = db4) + // In this case, the view `view1` is a nested view, it directly references `table2`ã`view2` + // and `view4`, the view `view2` references `view3`. On resolving the table, we look up the + // relations `table2`ã`view2`ã`view4` using the default database `db1`, and look up the + // relation `view3` using the default database `db2`. + // + // Note this is compatible with the views defined by older versions of Spark(before 2.2), which + // have empty defaultDatabase and all the relations in viewText have database part defined. + def resolveRelation( + plan: LogicalPlan, + defaultDatabase: Option[String] = None): LogicalPlan = plan match { + case u @ UnresolvedRelation(table: TableIdentifier, _) if isRunningDirectlyOnFiles(table) => + u + case u: UnresolvedRelation => + val defaultDatabase = AnalysisContext.get.defaultDatabase + val relation = lookupTableFromCatalog(u, defaultDatabase) + resolveRelation(relation, defaultDatabase) + // Hive support is required to resolve a persistent view, the logical plan returned by + // catalog.lookupRelation() should be: + // `SubqueryAlias(_, View(desc: CatalogTable, desc.output, child: LogicalPlan), _)`, + // where the child should be a logical plan parsed from `desc.viewText`. + // If the child of a view is empty, we will throw an AnalysisException later in + // `checkAnalysis`. + case view @ View(desc, _, Some(child)) => + val context = AnalysisContext(defaultDatabase = desc.viewDefaultDatabase) --- End diff -- Also set the nestedViewLevel?
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