spark-instrumented-optimizer/python
Nicholas Chammas f540031419 [SPARK-31000][PYTHON][SQL] Add ability to set table description via Catalog.createTable()
### What changes were proposed in this pull request?

This PR enhances `Catalog.createTable()` to allow users to set the table's description. This corresponds to the following SQL syntax:

```sql
CREATE TABLE ...
COMMENT 'this is a fancy table';
```

### Why are the changes needed?

This brings the Scala/Python catalog APIs a bit closer to what's already possible via SQL.

### Does this PR introduce any user-facing change?

Yes, it adds a new parameter to `Catalog.createTable()`.

### How was this patch tested?

Existing unit tests:

```sh
./python/run-tests \
  --python-executables python3.7 \
  --testnames 'pyspark.sql.tests.test_catalog,pyspark.sql.tests.test_context'
```

```
$ ./build/sbt
testOnly org.apache.spark.sql.internal.CatalogSuite org.apache.spark.sql.CachedTableSuite org.apache.spark.sql.hive.MetastoreDataSourcesSuite org.apache.spark.sql.hive.execution.HiveDDLSuite
```

Closes #27908 from nchammas/SPARK-31000-table-description.

Authored-by: Nicholas Chammas <nicholas.chammas@liveramp.com>
Signed-off-by: HyukjinKwon <gurwls223@apache.org>
2020-08-25 13:42:31 +09:00
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docs [MINOR][DOCS] Add KMeansSummary and InheritableThread to documentation 2020-08-19 14:30:07 +09:00
lib [SPARK-30884][PYSPARK] Upgrade to Py4J 0.10.9 2020-02-20 09:09:30 -08:00
pyspark [SPARK-31000][PYTHON][SQL] Add ability to set table description via Catalog.createTable() 2020-08-25 13:42:31 +09:00
test_coverage [SPARK-7721][PYTHON][TESTS] Adds PySpark coverage generation script 2018-01-22 22:12:50 +09:00
test_support [SPARK-23094][SPARK-23723][SPARK-23724][SQL] Support custom encoding for json files 2018-04-29 11:25:31 +08:00
.coveragerc [SPARK-7721][PYTHON][TESTS] Adds PySpark coverage generation script 2018-01-22 22:12:50 +09:00
.gitignore [SPARK-3946] gitignore in /python includes wrong directory 2014-10-14 14:09:39 -07:00
MANIFEST.in [SPARK-26803][PYTHON] Add sbin subdirectory to pyspark 2019-02-27 08:39:55 -06:00
pylintrc [SPARK-32435][PYTHON] Remove heapq3 port from Python 3 2020-07-27 20:10:13 +09:00
README.md [SPARK-30884][PYSPARK] Upgrade to Py4J 0.10.9 2020-02-20 09:09:30 -08:00
run-tests [SPARK-29672][PYSPARK] update spark testing framework to use python3 2019-11-14 10:18:55 -08:00
run-tests-with-coverage [SPARK-26252][PYTHON] Add support to run specific unittests and/or doctests in python/run-tests script 2018-12-05 15:22:08 +08:00
run-tests.py [SPARK-32036] Replace references to blacklist/whitelist language with more appropriate terminology, excluding the blacklisting feature 2020-07-15 11:40:55 -05:00
setup.cfg [SPARK-1267][SPARK-18129] Allow PySpark to be pip installed 2016-11-16 14:22:15 -08:00
setup.py [SPARK-29802][BUILD] Use python3 in build scripts 2020-07-19 11:02:37 +09:00

Apache Spark

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