I love it, it will make configs easier to read and write. Thanks Wenchen.
R
> On 13 Feb 2020, at 00:15, Dongjoon Hyun <dongjoon.h...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> Thank you, Wenchen.
>
> The new policy looks clear to me. +1 for the explicit policy.
>
> So, are we going to revise the existing conf names before 3.0.0 release?
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> Or, is it applied to new up-coming configurations from now?
>
> Bests,
> Dongjoon.
>
>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 7:43 AM Wenchen Fan <cloud0...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'd like to discuss the naming policy of Spark configs, as for now it
>> depends on personal preference which leads to inconsistent namings.
>>
>> In general, the config name should be a noun that describes its meaning
>> clearly.
>> Good examples:
>> spark.sql.session.timeZone
>> spark.sql.streaming.continuous.executorQueueSize
>> spark.sql.statistics.histogram.numBins
>> Bad examples:
>> spark.sql.defaultSizeInBytes (default size for what?)
>>
>> Also note that, config name has many parts, joined by dots. Each part is a
>> namespace. Don't create namespace unnecessarily.
>> Good example:
>> spark.sql.execution.rangeExchange.sampleSizePerPartition
>> spark.sql.execution.arrow.maxRecordsPerBatch
>> Bad examples:
>> spark.sql.windowExec.buffer.in.memory.threshold ("in" is not a useful
>> namespace, better to be .buffer.inMemoryThreshold)
>>
>> For a big feature, usually we need to create an umbrella config to turn it
>> on/off, and other configs for fine-grained controls. These configs should
>> share the same namespace, and the umbrella config should be named like
>> featureName.enabled. For example:
>> spark.sql.cbo.enabled
>> spark.sql.cbo.starSchemaDetection
>> spark.sql.cbo.starJoinFTRatio
>> spark.sql.cbo.joinReorder.enabled
>> spark.sql.cbo.joinReorder.dp.threshold （BTW "dp" is not a good namespace）
>> spark.sql.cbo.joinReorder.card.weight （BTW "card" is not a good namespace）
>>
>> For boolean configs, in general it should end with a verb, e.g.
>> spark.sql.join.preferSortMergeJoin. If the config is for a feature and you
>> can't find a good verb for the feature, featureName.enabled is also good.
>>
>> I'll update https://spark.apache.org/contributing.html after we reach a
>> consensus here. Any comments are welcome!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Wenchen
>>
>>
