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  1. Spark
  2. SPARK-28630

Union fails when column order is different

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Resolved
    • Major
    • Resolution: Invalid
    • 2.2.3
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    • Spark Core
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    Description

      I am trying to union 2 df which has same number of columns and types but in different order. It fails.

            val df1 = sparkSession.sparkContext.parallelize(List(

              (1, 5, true),

              (2, 3, false),

              (4, 4, true)

            )).toDF("id","age", "vaccinated")

       

            val df3 = sparkSession.sparkContext.parallelize(List(

              (1,  true, 6),

              (2, false, 3),

              (3, false, 2)

            )).toDF("id","vaccinated", "age")

      df1.union(df3)

       

      Actual output:

      org.apache.spark.sql.AnalysisException: Union can only be performed on tables with the same number of columns

      Expected output:

       

      It should read schema (column names and/Or types ). I can see sometime you want to ignore column name and just want to do merge based on types. So May be introduce an option whether to use names followed by type or just type while doing merge.

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            tenstriker nirav patel
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