To partition by a condition, you would need to create a column with the result of that condition. Then you would partition by that column. The sort option would also work here.
I don't think that there is much of a use case for this. You have a set of conditions on which to partition your data, and partitioning is already supported. The idea to use conditions to create separate data frames would actually make that harder because you'd need to create and name tables for each one. On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 9:16 AM Andrew Melo <andrew.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Ryan, > > On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 10:52 AM Ryan Blue <rb...@netflix.com> wrote: > > > > Andrew, can you give us more information about why partitioning the > output data doesn't work for your use case? > > > > It sounds like all you need to do is to create a table partitioned by A > and B, then you would automatically get the divisions you want. If what > you're looking for is a way to scale the number of combinations then you > can use formats that support more partitions, or you could sort by the > fields and rely on Parquet row group pruning to filter out data you don't > want. > > > > TBH, I don't understand what that would look like in pyspark and what > the consequences would be. Looking at the docs, it doesn't appear to > be the syntax for partitioning on a condition (most of our conditions > are of the form 'X > 30'). The use of Spark is still somewhat new in > our field, so it's possible we're not using it correctly. > > Cheers > Andrew > > > rb > > > > On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 8:33 AM Andrew Melo <andrew.m...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Hello > >> > >> On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 12:19 AM Moein Hosseini <moein...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > > >> > I've seen many application need to split dataset to multiple datasets > based on some conditions. As there is no method to do it in one place, > developers use filter method multiple times. I think it can be useful to > have method to split dataset based on condition in one iteration, something > like partition method of scala (of-course scala partition just split list > into two list, but something more general can be more useful). > >> > If you think it can be helpful, I can create Jira issue and work on > it to send PR. > >> > >> This would be a really useful feature for our use case (processing > >> collision data from the LHC). We typically want to take some sort of > >> input and split into multiple disjoint outputs based on some > >> conditions. E.g. if we have two conditions A and B, we'll end up with > >> 4 outputs (AB, !AB, A!B, !A!B). As we add more conditions, the > >> combinatorics explode like n^2, when we could produce them all up > >> front with this "multi filter" (or however it would be called). > >> > >> Cheers > >> Andrew > >> > >> > > >> > Best Regards > >> > Moein > >> > > >> > -- > >> > > >> > Moein Hosseini > >> > Data Engineer > >> > mobile: +98 912 468 1859 > >> > site: www.moein.xyz > >> > email: moein...@gmail.com > >> > > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org > >> > > > > > > -- > > Ryan Blue > > Software Engineer > > Netflix > -- Ryan Blue Software Engineer Netflix
