[SPARK-17717] Add existence checks to user facing catalog

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Target Version/s: 2.1.0
• Assignee: Herman van Hövell
• Reporter: Herman van Hövell
• Created: 29/Sep/16 02:16
• Updated: 30/Sep/16 05:15
• Resolved: 30/Sep/16 00:56

Description

It is currently quite cumbersome if an object exists using the (user facing) Catalog. Lets add a few methods for this.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #15301 (hvanhovell)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #15308 (hvanhovell)