João Pedro Jericó created SPARK-20294:
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Summary: _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 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.
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