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[jira] [Updated] (SPARK-4781) Column values become all NULL after doing ALTER TABLE CHANGE for renaming column names (Parquet external table in HiveContext)

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4781?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Jianshi Huang updated SPARK-4781:
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    Description: 
I have a table say created like follows:

CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE pmt (
  `sorted::cre_ts` string
)
STORED AS PARQUET
LOCATION '...'

And I renamed the column from sorted::cre_ts to cre_ts by doing:

ALTER TABLE pmt CHANGE `sorted::cre_ts` cre_ts string

After renaming the column, the values in the column become all NULLs.

Before renaming:
scala> sql("select `sorted::cre_ts` from pmt limit 1").collect
res12: Array[org.apache.spark.sql.Row] = Array([12/02/2014 07:38:54])

Execute renaming:
scala> sql("alter table pmt change `sorted::cre_ts` cre_ts string")
res13: org.apache.spark.sql.SchemaRDD =
SchemaRDD[972] at RDD at SchemaRDD.scala:108
== Query Plan ==
<Native command: executed by Hive>

After renaming:
scala> sql("select cre_ts from pmt limit 1").collect
res16: Array[org.apache.spark.sql.Row] = Array([null])


Jianshi



  was:
I have a table say created like follows:

CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE pmt {
  `sorted::cre_ts` string
}

And I renamed the column from sorted::cre_ts to cre_ts by doing:

ALTER TABLE pmt CHANGE `sorted::cre_ts` cre_ts string

After renaming the column, the values in the column become all NULLs.

Before renaming:
scala> sql("select `sorted::cre_ts` from pmt limit 1").collect
res12: Array[org.apache.spark.sql.Row] = Array([12/02/2014 07:38:54])

Execute renaming:
scala> sql("alter table pmt change `sorted::cre_ts` cre_ts string")
res13: org.apache.spark.sql.SchemaRDD =
SchemaRDD[972] at RDD at SchemaRDD.scala:108
== Query Plan ==
<Native command: executed by Hive>

After renaming:
scala> sql("select cre_ts from pmt limit 1").collect
res16: Array[org.apache.spark.sql.Row] = Array([null])


Jianshi




> Column values become all NULL after doing ALTER TABLE CHANGE for renaming column names (Parquet external table in HiveContext)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-4781
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4781
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: SQL
>    Affects Versions: 1.2.0, 1.3.0, 1.2.1
>            Reporter: Jianshi Huang
>
> I have a table say created like follows:
> CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE pmt (
>   `sorted::cre_ts` string
> )
> STORED AS PARQUET
> LOCATION '...'
> And I renamed the column from sorted::cre_ts to cre_ts by doing:
> ALTER TABLE pmt CHANGE `sorted::cre_ts` cre_ts string
> After renaming the column, the values in the column become all NULLs.
> Before renaming:
> scala> sql("select `sorted::cre_ts` from pmt limit 1").collect
> res12: Array[org.apache.spark.sql.Row] = Array([12/02/2014 07:38:54])
> Execute renaming:
> scala> sql("alter table pmt change `sorted::cre_ts` cre_ts string")
> res13: org.apache.spark.sql.SchemaRDD =
> SchemaRDD[972] at RDD at SchemaRDD.scala:108
> == Query Plan ==
> <Native command: executed by Hive>
> After renaming:
> scala> sql("select cre_ts from pmt limit 1").collect
> res16: Array[org.apache.spark.sql.Row] = Array([null])
> Jianshi



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