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[jira] [Commented] (SPARK-37980) Extend METADATA column to support row indexes for file based data sources

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Hyukjin Kwon commented on SPARK-37980:
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I am super curious about this because pandas API on Spark is currently generating such numbers for row index concept.

> ROW_INDEX is basically an index of a row within a file.

But I don't think this makes much sense. This is virtually what {{monotonically_increasing_id()}} does.

> Extend METADATA column to support row indexes for file based data sources
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-37980
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-37980
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: SQL
>    Affects Versions: 3.3
>            Reporter: Prakhar Jain
>            Priority: Major
>
> Spark recently added hidden metadata column support for File based datasources as part of  SPARK-37273.
> We should extend it to support ROW_INDEX also.
>  
> Definition:
> ROW_INDEX is basically an index of a row within a file. E.g. 5th row in the file will have ROW_INDEX 5.
>  
> Use cases: 
> Row Indexes can be used in a variety of ways. A (fileName, rowIndex) tuple uniquely identifies row in a table. This information can be used to mark rows. An Index can be easily created using the Row Indexes.



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