[SPARK-4552][SQL] Query for empty parquet table in spark sql hive get IllegalArgumentException

[scwf]

create table test_parquet(key int, value string) stored as parquet;
select * from test_parquet;
get error as follow
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not find Parquet metadata at path file:/user/hive/warehouse/test_parquet
at org.apache.spark.sql.parquet.ParquetTypesConverter$$anonfun$readMetaData$4.apply(ParquetTypes.scala:459)
at org.apache.spark.sql.parquet.ParquetTypesConverter$$anonfun$readMetaData$4.apply(ParquetTypes.scala:459)
at scala.Option.getOrElse(Option.scala:120)
at org.apache.spark.sql.parquet.ParquetTypesConverter$.readMetaData(ParquetTypes.sc

link to #3352

[scwf]

Need to add a test for this.

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[marmbrus]

Thanks for working on this! I think it might be better to make sure that we fix this as part of #3441. What do you think?

[scwf]

Thanks, ok to close this