[SPARK-2825] Allow creating external tables in metastore

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: SQL
• Assignee: Michael Armbrust
• Reporter: Aaron Davidson
• Created: 04/Aug/14 07:17
• Updated: 28/Jul/15 19:30
• Resolved: 28/Jul/15 19:30

Description

External tables are useful for creating a metastore entry that points at pre-existing data. There is an easy workaround to use registerAsTable within SparkSQL itself, but this is only transient, and has to be re-run for every Spark session.