Github user windpiger commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/16938#discussion_r103093397 --- Diff: sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/command/createDataSourceTables.scala --- @@ -140,8 +140,8 @@ case class CreateDataSourceTableAsSelectCommand( return Seq.empty } - saveDataIntoTable( - sparkSession, table, table.storage.locationUri, query, mode, tableExists = true) + saveDataIntoTable(sparkSession, table, table.storage.locationUri, query, mode, --- End diff -- `CreateTableAsSelectCommand` overwrite table path or not has no relation with the `SaveMode` of CTAS, that is if the table has already exist, we will overwrite it whatever the SaveMode is except that we should still check the path if exists for a managed(another [PR](https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/17057) to resolve this), so I think overwrite can't be replaced by SaveMode
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