Github user HyukjinKwon commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/18865
> the usage can cause weird results too
> `_corrupt_record` should return all the records that Spark SQL fail to
parse
I think another point should be, this issue still exists even if we
disallow selecting `_corrupt_record` alone here. If we select few columns
together with `_corrupt_record`, this case will still exist and results won't
be consistent. For example,
```
echo '{"fieldA": 1, "fieldB": 2}
{"fieldA": 3, "fieldB": 4}
{"fieldA": "5", "fieldB": 6}' >/tmp/sample.json
```
```scala
val file = "/tmp/sample.json"
val dfFromFile = spark.read.schema("fieldA BYTE, fieldB BYTE,
_corrupt_record STRING").json(file)
dfFromFile.select($"fieldA", $"_corrupt_record").show()
dfFromFile.select($"fieldB", $"_corrupt_record").show()
```
```
scala> dfFromFile.select($"fieldA", $"_corrupt_record").show()
+------+--------------------+
|fieldA| _corrupt_record|
+------+--------------------+
| 1| null|
| 3| null|
| null| {"fieldA": "5", ...|
+------+--------------------+
scala> dfFromFile.select($"fieldB", $"_corrupt_record").show()
+------+---------------+
|fieldB|_corrupt_record|
+------+---------------+
| 2| null|
| 4| null|
| 6| null|
+------+---------------+
```
If we should disallow, I think we should rather deprecate this option first
with some warnings, or explain this behaviour in the documentation.
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