[SPARK-19279] Disallow Users to Create a Hive Table With an Empty Schema

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.2, 2.1.0, 2.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.2.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Assignee: Xiao Li
• Reporter: Xiao Li
• Created: 18/Jan/17 19:15
• Updated: 08/Feb/17 04:14
• Resolved: 06/Feb/17 05:30

Description

So far, we allow users to create a table with an empty schema: CREATE TABLE tab1. This could break many code paths if we enable it. Thus, we should follow Hive to block it.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #16636 (gatorsmile)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #16848 (gatorsmile)