Github user gatorsmile commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/16626#discussion_r97189715 --- Diff: sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/command/tables.scala --- @@ -168,6 +168,43 @@ case class AlterTableRenameCommand( } /** + * A command that add columns to a table + * The syntax of using this command in SQL is: + * {{{ + * ALTER TABLE table_identifier + * ADD COLUMNS (col_name data_type [COMMENT col_comment], ...); + * }}} +*/ +case class AlterTableAddColumnsCommand( + table: TableIdentifier, + columns: Seq[StructField]) extends RunnableCommand { + override def run(sparkSession: SparkSession): Seq[Row] = { + val catalog = sparkSession.sessionState.catalog + val catalogTable = DDLUtils.verifyAlterTableAddColumn(catalog, table) + + // If an exception is thrown here we can just assume the table is uncached; + // this can happen with Hive tables when the underlying catalog is in-memory. + val wasCached = Try(sparkSession.catalog.isCached(table.unquotedString)).getOrElse(false) + if (wasCached) { + try { + sparkSession.catalog.uncacheTable(table.unquotedString) + } catch { + case NonFatal(e) => log.warn(e.toString, e) + } + } + // Invalidate the table last, otherwise uncaching the table would load the logical plan + // back into the hive metastore cache + catalog.refreshTable(table) + + val newSchema = catalogTable.schema.copy(fields = catalogTable.schema.fields ++ columns) --- End diff -- We are not supporting partitioned tables, right?
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