pyspark.sql.Catalog.dropGlobalTempView

Catalog.dropGlobalTempView(viewName)

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

Added in version 2.1.0.

Parameters:

viewNamestr

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

>>> 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 exists.

>>> spark.table("global_temp.my_table")
Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
AnalysisException: ...