Github user gatorsmile commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/16233#discussion_r95314839 --- Diff: sql/hive/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/HiveExternalCatalog.scala --- @@ -606,11 +625,15 @@ private[spark] class HiveExternalCatalog(conf: SparkConf, hadoopConf: Configurat } /** - * Restores table metadata from the table properties if it's a datasouce table. This method is - * kind of a opposite version of [[createTable]]. + * Restores table metadata from the table properties if it's a datasource table or a view. This + * method is kind of a opposite version of [[createTable]]. + * + * For a datasource table, it reads table schema, provider, partition column names and bucket --- End diff -- This is not limited to the data source table.
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