[GitHub] [spark] fred-db commented on a diff in pull request #38941: [SPARK-41498] Propagate metadata through Union

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fred-db commented on code in PR #38941:
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/38941#discussion_r1051925750


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sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/plans/logical/basicLogicalOperators.scala:
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@@ -449,22 +449,54 @@ case class Union(
       AttributeSet.fromAttributeSets(children.map(_.outputSet)).size
   }
 
-  // updating nullability to make all the children consistent
-  override def output: Seq[Attribute] = {
-    children.map(_.output).transpose.map { attrs =>
-      val firstAttr = attrs.head
-      val nullable = attrs.exists(_.nullable)
-      val newDt = attrs.map(_.dataType).reduce(StructType.unionLikeMerge)
-      if (firstAttr.dataType == newDt) {
-        firstAttr.withNullability(nullable)
-      } else {
-        AttributeReference(firstAttr.name, newDt, nullable, firstAttr.metadata)(
-          firstAttr.exprId, firstAttr.qualifier)
-      }
+  /**
+   * Merges a sequence of attributes to have a common datatype and updates the
+   * nullability to be consistent with the attributes being merged.
+   */
+  private def mergeAttributes(attributes: Seq[Attribute]): Attribute = {
+    val firstAttr = attributes.head
+    val nullable = attributes.exists(_.nullable)
+    val newDt = attributes.map(_.dataType).reduce(StructType.unionLikeMerge)
+    if (firstAttr.dataType == newDt) {
+      firstAttr.withNullability(nullable)
+    } else {
+      AttributeReference(firstAttr.name, newDt, nullable, firstAttr.metadata)(
+        firstAttr.exprId, firstAttr.qualifier)
     }
   }
 
-  override def metadataOutput: Seq[Attribute] = Nil
+  override def output: Seq[Attribute] = children.map(_.output).transpose.map(mergeAttributes)
+
+  override def metadataOutput: Seq[Attribute] = {
+    val childrenMetadataOutput = children.map(_.metadataOutput)
+    // This follows similar code in `CheckAnalysis` to check if the output of a Union is correct,
+    // but just silently doesn't return an output instead of throwing an error. It also ensures
+    // that the attribute names are the same.

Review Comment:
   ```suggestion
       // that the attribute and data type names are the same.
   ```



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