[SPARK-17980] Fix refreshByPath for converted Hive tables

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Assignee: Eric Liang
• Reporter: Eric Liang
• Created: 17/Oct/16 22:08
• Updated: 19/Oct/16 02:21
• Resolved: 19/Oct/16 02:21

Description

There is a small bug introduced in https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/14690 which broke refreshByPath with converted hive tables (though, it turns out it was very difficult to refresh converted hive tables anyways, since you had to specify the exact path of one of the partitions).

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #15521 (ericl)