Michael Armbrust created SPARK-8315: ---------------------------------------
Summary: Better error when saving to parquet with duplicate columns Key: SPARK-8315 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-8315 Project: Spark Issue Type: Sub-task Components: SQL Reporter: Michael Armbrust Priority: Critical Parquet allows you to silently write out files with duplicate column names and then emits a very confusing error when trying to read the data back in: {{{ Error in SQL statement: java.lang.RuntimeException: org.apache.spark.SparkException: Job aborted due to stage failure: Task 4 in stage 21.0 failed 4 times, most recent failure: Lost task 4.3 in stage 21.0 (TID 2767, ip-10-0-253-59.ec2.internal): parquet.io.ParquetDecodingException: Can not read value at 0 in block -1 in file ... }}} We should throw a better error before attempting to write out an invalid file. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@spark.apache.org