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Bryan Cutler commented on SPARK-14141:
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Take a look at SPARK-13534 which will make a Pandas DataFrame with equivalent 
types from Spark and uses Apache Arrow instead of Pandas.from_records.  Right 
now not all data types are supported, but if this is merged then complex types 
will be be added also.  Maybe this could be closed?

> Let user specify datatypes of pandas dataframe in toPandas()
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>                 Key: SPARK-14141
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-14141
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Input/Output, PySpark, SQL
>            Reporter: Luke Miner
>            Priority: Minor
>
> Would be nice to specify the dtypes of the pandas dataframe during the 
> toPandas() call. Something like:
> bq. pdf = df.toPandas(dtypes={'a': 'float64', 'b': 'datetime64', 'c': 'bool', 
> 'd': 'category'})
> Since dtypes like `category` are more memory efficient, you could potentially 
> load many more rows into a pandas dataframe with this option without running 
> out of memory.



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