Github user maropu commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/20929#discussion_r186593019
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sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/types/TypePlaceholder.scala ---
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+case object TypePlaceholder extends StringType
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In the latest fix, I used `NullType` for unresolved types and
`FileStreamSource` would resolve the types when we see non-null values. As
suggested in `SPARK-12436`, I think we might need to fallback into `StringType`
just before `Sink`s, e.g.,
https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/76ecd095024a658bf68e5db658e4416565b30c17/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/streaming/MicroBatchExecution.scala#L492
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