dropGlobalTempView

Drops the global temporary view with the given view name in the catalog.

Syntax

dropGlobalTempView(viewName: str)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
viewName	str	Name of the global view to drop.

Returns

bool

If the global view was successfully dropped or not.

Notes

If the view has been cached before, then it will also be uncached.

Examples

Python

spark.createDataFrame([(1, 1)]).createGlobalTempView("my_table")

# Dropping the global view.
spark.catalog.dropGlobalTempView("my_table")
# True

# Throw an exception if the global view does not exist.
spark.table("global_temp.my_table")
# Traceback (most recent call last):
#     ...
# AnalysisException: ...