Github user jackylk commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/carbondata/pull/1436#discussion_r147682356
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integration/spark-common/src/main/scala/org/apache/carbondata/spark/rdd/CarbonMergeFilesRDD.scala
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+package org.apache.carbondata.spark.rdd
+
+import org.apache.spark.{Partition, SparkContext, TaskContext}
+
+import org.apache.carbondata.core.util.path.CarbonTablePath
+import org.apache.carbondata.core.writer.CarbonIndexFileMergeWriter
+
+case class CarbonMergeFilePartition(rddId: Int, val idx: Int, segmentPath:
String)
+ extends Partition {
+
+ override val index: Int = idx
+
+ override def hashCode(): Int = 41 * (41 + rddId) + idx
+}
+
+class CarbonMergeFilesRDD(
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Instead of creating an RDD, why not just do rdd.mapPartition and invoke
this function to merge index file?
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