GitHub user CodingCat opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/15602
[SPARK-18058][SQL] [BACKPORT-2.0]Comparing column types ignoring Nullability in Union and SetOperation ## What changes were proposed in this pull request? The PR tries to fix [SPARK-18058](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-18058) which refers to a bug that the column types are compared with the extra care about Nullability in Union and SetOperation. This PR converts the columns types by setting all fields as nullable before comparison ## How was this patch tested? regular unit test cases You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/CodingCat/spark branch-2.0 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/15602.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #15602 ---- commit ce4b93c1d7046b7a3e4bee4e924fd012f315f2ef Author: CodingCat <zhunans...@gmail.com> Date: 2016-10-23T17:57:31Z SPARK-18058 commit e0d806a5dc7698079f188851044b3cc1e0e39bb3 Author: CodingCat <zhunans...@gmail.com> Date: 2016-10-23T17:59:57Z SPARK-18058 ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. --- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: reviews-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: reviews-h...@spark.apache.org