Thanks Peter.
I'm not sure if that is possible yet. The closest I can think of to
achieving what you want is to try something like:-
df.registerTempTable("mytable")
sql("create table mymanagedtable as select * from mytable")
I haven't used CTAS in Spark SQL before but have heard it works. This wo
Hi Chris,
Thank you for the input, I know I can always write the table DDL manually.
But here I would like to rely on Spark generating the schema. What I don't
understand is the change in the behaviour of Spark: having the storage path
specified does not necessarily mean it should be an external
Hey there,
Could you not just create a managed table using the DDL in Spark SQL and
then written the data frame to the underlying folder or use Spark SQL to do
an insert?
Alternatively try create table as select. Iirc hive creates managed tables
this way.
I've not confirmed this works but I thin
