### What changes were proposed in this pull request? Previously, user can issue `SHOW TABLES` to get info of both tables and views. This PR (SPARK-31113) implements `SHOW VIEWS` SQL command similar to HIVE to get views only.(https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+DDL#LanguageManualDDL-ShowViews) **Hive** -- Only show view names ``` hive> SHOW VIEWS; OK view_1 view_2 ... ``` **Spark(Hive-Compatible)** -- Only show view names, used in tests and `SparkSQLDriver` for CLI applications ``` SHOW VIEWS IN showdb; view_1 view_2 ... ``` **Spark** -- Show more information database/viewName/isTemporary ``` spark-sql> SHOW VIEWS; userdb view_1 false userdb view_2 false ... ``` ### Why are the changes needed? `SHOW VIEWS` command provides better granularity to only get information of views. ### Does this PR introduce any user-facing change? Add new `SHOW VIEWS` SQL command ### How was this patch tested? Add new test `show-views.sql` and pass existing tests Closes #27897 from Eric5553/ShowViews. Authored-by: Eric Wu <492960551@qq.com> Signed-off-by: Dongjoon Hyun <dongjoon@apache.org>
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Description
DROP VIEW
removes the metadata associated with a specified view from the catalog.
Syntax
{% highlight sql %} DROP VIEW [ IF EXISTS ] view_identifier {% endhighlight %}
Parameter
IF EXISTS
- If specified, no exception is thrown when the view does not exists.
view_identifier
-
Specifies the view name to be dropped. The view name may be optionally qualified with a database name.
Syntax:[ database_name. ] view_name
Example
{% highlight sql %}
-- Assumes a view named employeeView
exists.
DROP VIEW employeeView;
+---------+--+
| Result |
+---------+--+
+---------+--+
-- Assumes a view named employeeView
exists in the userdb
database
DROP VIEW userdb.employeeView;
+---------+--+
| Result |
+---------+--+
+---------+--+
-- Assumes a view named employeeView
does not exists.
-- Throws exception
DROP VIEW employeeView;
Error: org.apache.spark.sql.AnalysisException: Table or view not found: employeeView;
(state=,code=0)
-- Assumes a view named employeeView
does not exists,Try with IF EXISTS
-- this time it will not throw exception
DROP VIEW IF EXISTS employeeView;
+---------+--+
| Result |
+---------+--+
+---------+--+
{% endhighlight %}