I don't profess to be an expert on this, but I did face the same problem. A couple of possibilities:
1. If your default Hive database is stored in "/tmp/hive/warehouse/...", then that could be the issue. I recommend creating a database on s3a and then storing the table there ( .saveAsTable('s3db.test_table',... ) 2. Have you tried setting spark.sql.warehouse.dir? I know the docs say that it uses the hive metastore dir first, but I've had some luck with setting that one. -- View this message in context: http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/How-to-control-saveAsTable-warehouse-path-tp23340p28221.html Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org