[jira] [Commented] (SPARK-13699) Spark SQL drops the HIVE table in "overwrite" mode while writing into table

["Xiao Li (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Xiao Li commented on SPARK-13699:
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In RDBMS, I know truncate is much faster than drop-and-then-recreate due to logging issues. How about HIVE?

> Spark SQL drops the HIVE table in "overwrite" mode while writing into table
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>
>                 Key: SPARK-13699
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-13699
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: SQL
>    Affects Versions: 1.6.0
>            Reporter: Dhaval Modi
>            Priority: Blocker
>
> Hi,
> While writing the dataframe to HIVE table with "SaveMode.Overwrite" option.
> E.g.
> tgtFinal.write.mode(SaveMode.Overwrite).saveAsTable("tgt_table")
> sqlContext drop the table instead of truncating.
> Thanks & Regards,
> Dhaval



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