Github user liancheng commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/18412#discussion_r124062223 --- Diff: sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/expressions/Cast.scala --- @@ -482,15 +482,15 @@ case class Cast(child: Expression, dataType: DataType, timeZoneId: Option[String case (fromField, toField) => cast(fromField.dataType, toField.dataType) } // TODO: Could be faster? - val newRow = new GenericInternalRow(from.fields.length) buildCast[InternalRow](_, row => { + val newRow = new GenericInternalRow(from.fields.length) var i = 0 while (i < row.numFields) { newRow.update(i, if (row.isNullAt(i)) null else castFuncs(i)(row.get(i, from.apply(i).dataType))) i += 1 } - newRow.copy() --- End diff -- @hvanhovell I found the semantics of the original `GenericMutableRow.copy()` pretty dangerous since it didn't properly implement deep copy semantics. In fact, it's impossible to do a proper deep copy there. We only copy the underlying field array but may still share field objects accidentally. If we do want to "fix" `GenericInternalRow.copy()`, I'd prefer throwing an exception instead of following the old `GenericMutableRow.copy()` method.
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