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Posted to user@spark.apache.org by Jacek Laskowski <ja...@japila.pl> on 2016/04/02 01:15:04 UTC

Re: [SQL] A bug with withColumn?

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 5:47 PM, Jacek Laskowski <ja...@japila.pl> wrote:

> It means that it's not only possible to rename a column using
> withColumnRenamed, but also replace the content of a column (in one
> shot) using withColumn with an existing column name. I can live with
> that :)

Hi,

Not only can I live with that, but I did use it today few times
because it was so nice! I used this when I needed to `cast` a column
and I could do it with just `withColumn`. Awesome! You should've seen
the faces of the people I've presented the solution to :)

Pozdrawiam,
Jacek Laskowski
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