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Everett Anderson commented on SPARK-20073:
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Ah, interesting.

I notice that you do have to use a different value for the alias -- it 
recognizes if it's the same string and does nothing.

This seems like a work-around for a rather surprising "gotcha" in Spark's joins 
when everything else works so well.

Do you know if a longer-term fix is being worked on?

Separately, trying to generalize your solution a bit further, I suppose one 
could do something like this to rename all columns before and after a join, 
though it's rather gross --

{noformat}
// Rename all columns
val renamedPeople = people.select(people.columns.map(x => 
people.col(x).as("tmp" + x)):_*)

val renamedVariantCounts = variantCounts.select(variantCounts.columns.map(x => 
variantCounts.col(x).as("tmp" + x)):_*)

// Perform the join
val joinedResult = renamedVariantCounts.join(renamedPeople, 
renamedVariantCounts("tmpname")<=>renamedPeople("tmpname"))

// Restore the original column names
val result = joinedResult.select((renamedVariantCounts.columns.map(x => 
renamedVariantCounts.col(x).as(x.substring(3))) ++ renamedPeople.columns.map(x 
=> renamedPeople.col(x).as(x.substring(3)))):_*)

result.show
+----+-------------+----+-----+----+                                            
|name|variant_count|name|group|data|
+----+-------------+----+-----+----+
|Fred|            2|Fred|    8|   1|
|Fred|            2|Fred|    8|   2|
| Amy|            2| Amy|   12|   5|
| Amy|            2| Amy|   12|   6|
|null|            2|null|   10|   3|
|null|            2|null|   10|   4|
+----+-------------+----+-----+----+

result.explain
== Physical Plan ==
*Project [tmpname#30 AS name#54, tmpvariant_count#31L AS variant_count#55L, 
tmpname#23 AS name#56, tmpgroup#24 AS group#57, tmpdata#25 AS data#58]
+- *SortMergeJoin [coalesce(tmpname#30, )], [coalesce(tmpname#23, )], Inner, 
(tmpname#30 <=> tmpname#23)
   :- *Sort [coalesce(tmpname#30, ) ASC], false, 0
   :  +- Exchange hashpartitioning(coalesce(tmpname#30, ), 200)
   :     +- *Project [name#3 AS tmpname#30, variant_count#11L AS 
tmpvariant_count#31L]
   :        +- *Filter (variant_count#11L > 1)
   :           +- *HashAggregate(keys=[name#3], functions=[count(distinct 
struct(name#3, group#4, data#5)#86)])
   :              +- Exchange hashpartitioning(name#3, 200)
   :                 +- *HashAggregate(keys=[name#3], 
functions=[partial_count(distinct struct(name#3, group#4, data#5)#86)])
   :                    +- *HashAggregate(keys=[name#3, struct(name#3, group#4, 
data#5)#86], functions=[])
   :                       +- Exchange hashpartitioning(name#3, struct(name#3, 
group#4, data#5)#86, 200)
   :                          +- *HashAggregate(keys=[name#3, struct(name#3, 
group#4, data#5) AS struct(name#3, group#4, data#5)#86], functions=[])
   :                             +- Scan ExistingRDD[name#3,group#4,data#5]
   +- *Sort [coalesce(tmpname#23, ) ASC], false, 0
      +- Exchange hashpartitioning(coalesce(tmpname#23, ), 200)
         +- *Project [name#3 AS tmpname#23, group#4 AS tmpgroup#24, data#5 AS 
tmpdata#25]
            +- Scan ExistingRDD[name#3,group#4,data#5]
{noformat}


> Unexpected Cartesian product when using eqNullSafe in join with a derived 
> table
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-20073
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-20073
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Optimizer
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.2, 2.1.0
>            Reporter: Everett Anderson
>              Labels: correctness
>
> It appears that if you try to join tables A and B when B is derived from A 
> and you use the eqNullSafe / <=> operator for the join condition, Spark 
> performs a Cartesian product.
> However, if you perform the join on tables of the same data when they don't 
> have a relationship, the expected non-Cartesian product join occurs.
> {noformat}
> // Create some fake data.
> import org.apache.spark.sql.Row
> import org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset
> import org.apache.spark.sql.types._
> import org.apache.spark.sql.functions
> val peopleRowsRDD = sc.parallelize(Seq(
>     Row("Fred", 8, 1),
>     Row("Fred", 8, 2),
>     Row(null, 10, 3),
>     Row(null, 10, 4),
>     Row("Amy", 12, 5),
>     Row("Amy", 12, 6)))
>     
> val peopleSchema = StructType(Seq(
>     StructField("name", StringType, nullable = true),
>     StructField("group", IntegerType, nullable = true),
>     StructField("data", IntegerType, nullable = true)))
>     
> val people = spark.createDataFrame(peopleRowsRDD, peopleSchema)
> people.createOrReplaceTempView("people")
> scala> people.show
> +----+-----+----+
> |name|group|data|
> +----+-----+----+
> |Fred|    8|   1|
> |Fred|    8|   2|
> |null|   10|   3|
> |null|   10|   4|
> | Amy|   12|   5|
> | Amy|   12|   6|
> +----+-----+----+
> // Now create a derived table from that table. It doesn't matter much what.
> val variantCounts = spark.sql("select name, count(distinct(name, group, 
> data)) as variant_count from people group by name having variant_count > 1")
> variantCounts.show
> +----+-------------+                                                          
>   
> |name|variant_count|
> +----+-------------+
> |Fred|            2|
> |null|            2|
> | Amy|            2|
> +----+-------------+
> // Now try an inner join using the regular equalTo that drops nulls. This 
> works fine.
> val innerJoinEqualTo = variantCounts.join(people, 
> variantCounts("name").equalTo(people("name")))
> innerJoinEqualTo.show
> +----+-------------+----+-----+----+                                          
>   
> |name|variant_count|name|group|data|
> +----+-------------+----+-----+----+
> |Fred|            2|Fred|    8|   1|
> |Fred|            2|Fred|    8|   2|
> | Amy|            2| Amy|   12|   5|
> | Amy|            2| Amy|   12|   6|
> +----+-------------+----+-----+----+
> // Okay now lets switch to the <=> operator
> //
> // If you haven't set spark.sql.crossJoin.enabled=true, you'll get an error 
> like
> // "Cartesian joins could be prohibitively expensive and are disabled by 
> default. To explicitly enable them, please set spark.sql.crossJoin.enabled = 
> true;"
> //
> // if you have enabled them, you'll get the table below.
> //
> // However, we really don't want or expect a Cartesian product!
> val innerJoinSqlNullSafeEqOp = variantCounts.join(people, 
> variantCounts("name")<=>(people("name")))
> innerJoinSqlNullSafeEqOp.show
> +----+-------------+----+-----+----+                                          
>   
> |name|variant_count|name|group|data|
> +----+-------------+----+-----+----+
> |Fred|            2|Fred|    8|   1|
> |Fred|            2|Fred|    8|   2|
> |Fred|            2|null|   10|   3|
> |Fred|            2|null|   10|   4|
> |Fred|            2| Amy|   12|   5|
> |Fred|            2| Amy|   12|   6|
> |null|            2|Fred|    8|   1|
> |null|            2|Fred|    8|   2|
> |null|            2|null|   10|   3|
> |null|            2|null|   10|   4|
> |null|            2| Amy|   12|   5|
> |null|            2| Amy|   12|   6|
> | Amy|            2|Fred|    8|   1|
> | Amy|            2|Fred|    8|   2|
> | Amy|            2|null|   10|   3|
> | Amy|            2|null|   10|   4|
> | Amy|            2| Amy|   12|   5|
> | Amy|            2| Amy|   12|   6|
> +----+-------------+----+-----+----+
> // Okay, let's try to construct the exact same variantCount table manually
> // so it has no relationship to the original.
> val variantCountRowsRDD = sc.parallelize(Seq(
>     Row("Fred", 2),
>     Row(null, 2),
>     Row("Amy", 2)))
>     
> val variantCountSchema = StructType(Seq(
>     StructField("name", StringType, nullable = true),
>     StructField("variant_count", IntegerType, nullable = true)))
>     
> val manualVariantCounts = spark.createDataFrame(variantCountRowsRDD, 
> variantCountSchema)
> // Now perform the same join with the null-safe equals operator. This works 
> and gives us the expected non-Cartesian product result.
> val manualVarCountsInnerJoinSqlNullSafeEqOp = 
> manualVariantCounts.join(people, 
> manualVariantCounts("name")<=>(people("name")))
> manualVarCountsInnerJoinSqlNullSafeEqOp.show
> +----+-------------+----+-----+----+
> |name|variant_count|name|group|data|
> +----+-------------+----+-----+----+
> |Fred|            2|Fred|    8|   1|
> |Fred|            2|Fred|    8|   2|
> | Amy|            2| Amy|   12|   5|
> | Amy|            2| Amy|   12|   6|
> |null|            2|null|   10|   3|
> |null|            2|null|   10|   4|
> +----+-------------+----+-----+----+
> {noformat}



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