GitHub user clockfly opened a pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/13306
[SPARK-12988][SQL] Can't drop top level columns that contain dots
## What changes were proposed in this pull request?
This PR is work based on @dilipbiswal's
https://github.com/apache/spa
Github user SparkQA commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/13306#issuecomment-221726709
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