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Herman van Hovell commented on SPARK-17728:
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Spark assumes UDF's are pure function; we do not guarantee that a function is
only executed once. This is due to the way the optimizer works, and the fact
that sometimes retry stages. We could add a flag to UDF to prevent this from
working, but this would be a considerable engineering effort.
The example you give is not really a pure function, as its side effects makes
the thread stop (changes state).
If you are connecting to an external service, then I would suggest using
{{Dataset.mapPartitions(...)}} (similar to a generator). This will allow you to
setup one connection per partition, and you can call a method as much or as
little as you like.
> UDFs are run too many times
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> Key: SPARK-17728
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-17728
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Spark Core
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0
> Environment: Databricks Cloud / Spark 2.0.0
> Reporter: Jacob Eisinger
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: over_optimized_udf.html
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> h3. Background
> Llonger running processes that might run analytics or contact external
> services from UDFs. The response might not just be a field, but instead a
> structure of information. When attempting to break out this information, it
> is critical that query is optimized correctly.
> h3. Steps to Reproduce
> # Create some sample data.
> # Create a UDF that returns a multiple attributes.
> # Run UDF over some data.
> # Create new columns from the multiple attributes.
> # Observe run time.
> h3. Actual Results
> The UDF is executed *multiple times* _per row._
> h3. Expected Results
> The UDF should only be executed *once* _per row._
> h3. Workaround
> Cache the Dataset after UDF execution.
> h3. Details
> For code and more details, see [^over_optimized_udf.html]
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