[SPARK-11778] HiveContext.read.table does not support user-specified database names

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.5.1
• Fix Version/s: 1.6.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Labels: releasenotes
• Target Version/s: 1.6.0
• Assignee: Huaxin Gao
• Reporter: Stanislav Hadjiiski
• Created: 17/Nov/15 10:58
• Updated: 22/Nov/15 06:17
• Resolved: 19/Nov/15 21:08

Description

If we have defined a HiveContext instance

val hiveContext = new org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext(sparkContext)

then

hiveContext.table("db_name.table")

works but

hiveContext.read.table("db_name.table")

throws an org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.analysis.NoSuchTableException
However,

hiveContext.sql("use db_name")
hiveContext.read.table("table")

works as expected

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #9773 (huaxingao)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #9890 (huaxingao)