Github user gatorsmile commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/16868#discussion_r100685218 --- Diff: sql/hive/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/execution/HiveDDLSuite.scala --- @@ -969,15 +1053,19 @@ class HiveDDLSuite val targetTable = spark.sessionState.catalog.getTableMetadata( TableIdentifier(targetTabName, Some("default"))) - checkCreateTableLike(sourceView, targetTable) + checkCreateTableLike(sourceView, targetTable, tableType) } } } - private def checkCreateTableLike(sourceTable: CatalogTable, targetTable: CatalogTable): Unit = { - // The created table should be a MANAGED table with empty view text and original text. - assert(targetTable.tableType == CatalogTableType.MANAGED, - "the created table must be a Hive managed table") + private def checkCreateTableLike( + sourceTable: CatalogTable, + targetTable: CatalogTable, + tableType: CatalogTableType): Unit = { + // The created table should be a MANAGED table or EXTERNAL table with empty view text + // and original text. + assert(targetTable.tableType == tableType, + s"the created table must be a Hive ${tableType.name} table") --- End diff -- For a Hive table? It could be a data source table too.
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