There is not automated solution right now. You have to issue manual ALTER TABLE commands, which works for adding top-level columns but gets tricky if you are adding a field in a deeply nested struct.
Hopefully, the issue will be fixed in 2.2 because work has started on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-18727 -- View this message in context: http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Schema-evolution-in-tables-tp23999p28305.html Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org
