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Xiao Li updated SPARK-21769:
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Summary: Add a table property for Hive-serde tables to control Spark always
respecting schemas inferred by Spark SQL (was: Add a table property for
Hive-serde tables to controlling Spark always respecting schemas inferred by
Spark SQL)
> Add a table property for Hive-serde tables to control Spark always respecting
> schemas inferred by Spark SQL
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> Key: SPARK-21769
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-21769
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: SQL
> Affects Versions: 2.3.0
> Reporter: Xiao Li
> Assignee: Xiao Li
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> For Hive-serde tables, we always respect the schema stored in Hive metastore,
> because the schema could be altered by the other engines that share the same
> metastore. Thus, we always trust the metastore-controlled schema for
> Hive-serde tables when the schemas are different (without considering the
> nullability and cases). However, in some scenarios, Hive metastore also could
> INCORRECTLY overwrite the schemas when the serde and Hive metastore built-in
> serde are different.
> The proposed solution is to introduce a table property for such scenarios.
> For a specific Hive-serde table, users can manually setting such table
> property for asking Spark for always respect Spark-inferred schema instead of
> trusting metastore-controlled schema. By default, it is off.
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