Varadharajan created SPARK-13393:
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             Summary: Column mismatch issue in left_outer join using Spark 
DataFrame
                 Key: SPARK-13393
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-13393
             Project: Spark
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: SQL
    Affects Versions: 1.5.0
            Reporter: Varadharajan


Consider the below snippet:
{code:title=test.scala|borderStyle=solid}
class Person(id: Int, name: String)

val df = sc.parallelize(List(
  Person(1, "varadha"),
  Person(2, "nagaraj")
)).toDF

val varadha = df.filter("id = 1")

val errorDF = df.join(varadha, df("id") === varadha("id"), 
"left_outer").select(df("id"), varadha("id") as "varadha_id")

val nagaraj = df.filter("id = 2").select(df("id") as "n_id")

val correctDF = df.join(nagaraj, df("id") === nagaraj("n_id"), 
"left_outer").select(df("id"), nagaraj("n_id") as "nagaraj_id")
{code}

The `errorDF` dataframe, after the left join is messed up and shows as below:

| id|varadha_id|
|  1|         1|
|  2|         2 (*This should've been null*)| 

whereas correctDF has the correct output after the left join:

| id|nagaraj_id|
|  1|      null|
|  2|         2|



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