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Hyukjin Kwon resolved SPARK-20294.
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    Resolution: Invalid

I am resolving this because this does not look a problem. I guess we are unable 
to infer the schema when the data is empty.

I think the workaround can be ...

{code}
>>> small_rdd = sc.parallelize([(1, '2'), (2, 'foo')])
>>> schema = small_rdd.toDF().schema
>>> small_rdd.toDF(schema).show()
+---+---+
| _1| _2|
+---+---+
|  1|  2|
|  2|foo|
+---+---+
{code}

or maybe

{code}
>>> small_rdd = sc.parallelize([(1, '2'), (2, 'foo')])
>>> schema = small_rdd.toDF(sampleRatio=0.5).schema
>>> small_rdd.toDF(schema).show()
+---+---+
| _1| _2|
+---+---+
|  1|  2|
|  2|foo|
+---+---+
{code}

Please reopen this if anyone thinks differently or I misunderstood.

> _inferSchema for RDDs fails if sample returns empty RDD
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-20294
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-20294
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: PySpark
>    Affects Versions: 2.1.0
>            Reporter: João Pedro Jericó
>            Priority: Minor
>
> Currently the _inferSchema function on 
> [session.py](https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/python/pyspark/sql/session.py#L354)
>  line 354 fails if applied to an RDD for which the sample call returns an 
> empty RDD. This is possible for example if one has a small RDD but that needs 
> the schema to be inferred by more than one Row. For example:
> ```python
> small_rdd = sc.parallelize([(1, 2), (2, 'foo')])
> small_rdd.toDF(samplingRatio=0.01).show()
> ```
> This will fail with high probability because when sampling the small_rdd with 
> the .sample method it will return an empty RDD most of the time. However, 
> this is not the desired result because we are able to sample at least 1% of 
> the RDD.
> This is probably a problem with the other Spark APIs however I don't have the 
> knowledge to look at the source code for other languages.



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