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Takeshi Yamamuro commented on SPARK-32046:
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>> The question when does a query evaluation start and stop? Do mutual
>> exclusive dataframes being processed consist of the same query evaluation?
>> If yes, then current timestamp's behavior in spark shell is correct;
>> however, as user, that would be extremely undesirable behavior. I would
>> rather cache the current timestamp and call it again for a new time.
The evaluation of current_timestamp happens per dataframe just before invoking
Spark jobs (more specifically, its done at the optimization stage in a driver
side).
>> Now if a query evaluation stops once it is executed and starts anew when
>> another dataframe or action is called, then the behavior in shell and
>> notebooks are incorrect. The notebooks are only correct for a few runs and
>> then default to not changing.
In normal cases, I think the behaviour of spark-shell is correct. But, I'm not
sure what's going on ZP/Jupyter. If you want to make it robust, I think its
better to use checkpoint instead of cache though.
> current_timestamp called in a cache dataframe freezes the time for all future
> calls
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>
> Key: SPARK-32046
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-32046
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: SQL
> Affects Versions: 2.3.0, 2.4.4, 3.0.0
> Reporter: Dustin Smith
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: caching, sql, time
>
> If I call current_timestamp 3 times while caching the dataframe variable in
> order to freeze that dataframe's time, the 3rd dataframe time and beyond
> (4th, 5th, ...) will be frozen to the 2nd dataframe's time. The 1st dataframe
> and the 2nd will differ in time but will become static on the 3rd usage and
> beyond (when running on Zeppelin or Jupyter).
> Additionally, caching only caused 2 dataframes to cache skipping the 3rd.
> However,
> {code:java}
> val df = Seq(java.time.LocalDateTime.now.toString).toDF("datetime").cache
> df.count
> // this can be run 3 times no issue.
> // then later cast to TimestampType{code}
> doesn't have this problem and all 3 dataframes cache with correct times
> displaying.
> Running the code in shell and Jupyter or Zeppelin (ZP) also produces
> different results. In the shell, you only get 1 unique time no matter how
> many times you run it, current_timestamp. However, in ZP or Jupyter I have
> always received 2 unique times before it froze.
>
> {code:java}
> val df1 = spark.range(1).select(current_timestamp as "datetime").cache
> df1.count
> df1.show(false)
> Thread.sleep(9500)
> val df2 = spark.range(1).select(current_timestamp as "datetime").cache
> df2.count
> df2.show(false)
> Thread.sleep(9500)
> val df3 = spark.range(1).select(current_timestamp as "datetime").cache
> df3.count
> df3.show(false){code}
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