[SPARK-6969] Refresh the cached table when REFRESH TABLE is used

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Target Version/s: 1.4.0
• Assignee: Yin Huai
• Reporter: Yin Huai
• Created: 16/Apr/15 20:53
• Updated: 24/Apr/15 00:24
• Resolved: 21/Apr/15 21:48

Description

Right now, REFRESH TABLE only invalidate the metadata of a table. If a table is cached and new files are added manually to the table, users still see the cached data after REFRESH TABLE.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #5583 (yhuai)