Github user srowen commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/12105#discussion_r59864421 --- Diff: sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/expressions/datetimeExpressions.scala --- @@ -368,7 +369,10 @@ abstract class UnixTime extends BinaryExpression with ExpectsInputTypes { t.asInstanceOf[Long] / 1000000L case StringType if right.foldable => if (constFormat != null) { - Try(new SimpleDateFormat(constFormat.toString).parse( + if (formatter == null) { + formatter = Try(new SimpleDateFormat(constFormat.toString)).getOrElse(null) --- End diff -- `.orNull` is available? but, this will just cause an NPE in the next line, which will also get squashed. Do we really want to hide both of these? why not let the error fly?
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