[SPARK-6941] Provide a better error message to explain that tables created from RDDs are immutable

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Target Version/s: 1.5.0
• Assignee: Yijie Shen
• Reporter: Yin Huai
• Shepherd: Yin Huai
• Created: 15/Apr/15 18:59
• Updated: 16/Jul/15 17:52
• Resolved: 16/Jul/15 17:52

Description

We should explicitly let users know that tables created from RDDs are immutable and new rows cannot be inserted into it. We can add a better error message and also explain it in the programming guide.

Issue Links

• relates to: SPARK-6217 insertInto doesn't work in PySpark
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #7342 (yijieshen)