Do you know how I can check that? I googled a bit but couldn't find a clear explanation about it. I also tried to use explain() but it doesn't really help. I still find unusual that I have this issue only for the equality operator but not for the others.
Thank you, F On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 3:03 PM ayan guha <guha.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > Looks like you DF is based on a MySQL DB using jdbc, and error is thrown > from mySQL. Can you see what SQL is finally getting fired in MySQL? Spark > is pushing down the predicate to mysql so its not a spark problem perse > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Francesco Bigarella < > francesco.bigare...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I was testing the DataFrame filter functionality and I found what I think >> is a strange behaviour. >> My dataframe testDF, obtained loading aMySQL table via jdbc, has the >> following schema: >> root >> | -- id: long (nullable = false) >> | -- title: string (nullable = true) >> | -- value: string (nullable = false) >> | -- status: string (nullable = false) >> >> What I want to do is filter my dataset to obtain all rows that have a >> status = "new". >> >> scala> testDF.filter(testDF("id") === 1234).first() >> works fine (also with the integer value within double quotes), however if >> I try to use the same statement to filter on the status column (also with >> changes in the syntax - see below), suddenly the program breaks. >> >> Any of the following >> scala> testDF.filter(testDF("status") === "new") >> scala> testDF.filter("status = 'new'") >> scala> testDF.filter($"status" === "new") >> >> generates the error: >> >> INFO scheduler.DAGScheduler: Job 3 failed: runJob at >> SparkPlan.scala:121, took 0.277907 s >> >> org.apache.spark.SparkException: Job aborted due to stage failure: Task 0 >> in stage 3.0 failed 4 times, most recent failure: Lost task 0.3 in stage >> 3.0 (TID 12, <node name>): >> com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLSyntaxErrorException: Unknown column >> 'new' in 'where clause' >> >> at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) >> at >> sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57) >> at >> sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) >> at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526) >> at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:411) >> at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.getInstance(Util.java:386) >> at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:1052) >> at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:3597) >> at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:3529) >> at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sendCommand(MysqlIO.java:1990) >> at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sqlQueryDirect(MysqlIO.java:2151) >> at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.execSQL(ConnectionImpl.java:2625) >> at >> com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeInternal(PreparedStatement.java:2119) >> at >> com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeQuery(PreparedStatement.java:2283) >> at org.apache.spark.sql.jdbc.JDBCRDD$anon$1.<init>(JDBCRDD.scala:328) >> at org.apache.spark.sql.jdbc.JDBCRDD.compute(JDBCRDD.scala:309) >> at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.computeOrReadCheckpoint(RDD.scala:277) >> at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.iterator(RDD.scala:244) >> at >> org.apache.spark.rdd.MapPartitionsRDD.compute(MapPartitionsRDD.scala:35) >> at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.computeOrReadCheckpoint(RDD.scala:277) >> at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.iterator(RDD.scala:244 >> at >> org.apache.spark.rdd.MapPartitionsRDD.compute(MapPartitionsRDD.scala:35) >> at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.computeOrReadCheckpoint(RDD.scala:277) >> at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.iterator(RDD.scala:244) >> at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ResultTask.runTask(ResultTask.scala:61) >> at org.apache.spark.scheduler.Task.run(Task.scala:64) >> at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.run(Executor.scala:203) >> at >> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) >> at >> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) >> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) >> >> Does filter work only on columns of the integer type? What is the exact >> behaviour of the filter function and what is the best way to handle the >> query I am trying to execute? >> >> Thank you, >> Francesco >> >> > > > -- > Best Regards, > Ayan Guha >