Github user gatorsmile commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/16636#discussion_r97216875 --- Diff: sql/hive/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/HiveExternalCatalog.scala --- @@ -129,6 +130,21 @@ private[spark] class HiveExternalCatalog(conf: SparkConf, hadoopConf: Configurat } } + /** + * For Hive serde tables, some serde libraries require the specified schema and record it + * in the metastore. The main code is from the function hasMetastoreBasedSchema in Table.java --- End diff -- To the reviewers: `hasMetastoreBasedSchema` in `Table.java` can be accessed via the link: https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/master/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/metadata/Table.java#L943-L946
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