CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW and ALTER VIEW not supported

ALTER VIEW and CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW AS commands are no longer supported.

Type of change: Configuration/Spark Core Changes

Spark 1.6

You can create views as follows:

CREATE OR REPLACE [ [ GLOBAL ] TEMPORARY ] VIEW [ IF NOT EXISTS ] view_name 
  [ column_list ]
  [ COMMENT view_comment ]
  [ properties ]
  AS query
  
  ALTER VIEW view_name
  { rename |
  set_properties |
  unset_properties |
  alter_body }

Spark 2.4

ALTER VIEW and CREATE OR REPLACE commands above are not supported.

Action Required

CREATE [ [ GLOBAL ] TEMPORARY ] VIEW [ IF NOT EXISTS ] view_name
    [ column_list ]
    [ COMMENT view_comment ]
    [ properties ]
    AS query