Github user cloud-fan commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/16626#discussion_r105286751 --- Diff: sql/hive/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/HiveExternalCatalog.scala --- @@ -504,94 +504,57 @@ private[spark] class HiveExternalCatalog(conf: SparkConf, hadoopConf: Configurat * Note: As of now, this doesn't support altering table schema, partition column names and bucket * specification. We will ignore them even if users do specify different values for these fields. */ - override def alterTable(tableDefinition: CatalogTable): Unit = withClient { - assert(tableDefinition.identifier.database.isDefined) - val db = tableDefinition.identifier.database.get - requireTableExists(db, tableDefinition.identifier.table) - verifyTableProperties(tableDefinition) + override def alterTable(newTableDefinition: CatalogTable): Unit = withClient { --- End diff -- now we have a `alterSchema` method in `ExternalCatalog`, we can use that instead.
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