[SPARK-10672] We should not fail to create a table If we cannot persist metadata of a data source table to metastore in a Hive compatible way

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.1, 1.6.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Target Version/s: 1.5.1, 1.6.0
• Assignee: Yin Huai
• Reporter: Yin Huai
• Created: 17/Sep/15 21:13
• Updated: 22/Sep/15 20:30
• Resolved: 22/Sep/15 20:30

Description

It is possible that Hive has some internal restrictions on what kinds of metadata of a table it accepts (e.g. Hive 0.13 does not support decimal stored in parquet). If it is the case, we should not fail when we try to store the metadata in a Hive compatible way. We should just save it in the Spark SQL specific format.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #8800 (yhuai)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #8824 (yhuai)