Github user cloud-fan commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/17436#discussion_r108947566 --- Diff: sql/core/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/vectorized/ColumnarBatch.java --- @@ -430,12 +430,15 @@ public int numValidRows() { /** * Sets (replaces) the column at `ordinal` with column. This can be used to do very efficient * projections. + * Note: Caller must ensure that ColumnVector in column[ordinal] is not used in other places */ public void setColumn(int ordinal, ColumnVector column) { - if (column instanceof OffHeapColumnVector) { - throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Need to ref count columns."); - } + ColumnVector oldColumn = columns[ordinal]; columns[ordinal] = column; + if (oldColumn instanceof OffHeapColumnVector) { --- End diff -- we can call `oldColumn.close()` directly, as `OnHeapColumnVector.close` is no-op
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