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Erik Krogen commented on SPARK-34365:
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I plan to post a PR for this in the next few days, unless I hear pushback that
this is a bad idea.
> Support configurable Avro schema field matching for positional or by-name
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> Key: SPARK-34365
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-34365
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: SQL
> Affects Versions: 3.0.1
> Reporter: Erik Krogen
> Priority: Major
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> When reading an Avro dataset (using the dataset's schema or by overriding it
> with 'avroSchema') or writing an Avro dataset with a provided schema by
> 'avroSchema', currently the matching of Catalyst-to-Avro fields is done by
> field name.
> This behavior is somewhat recent; prior to SPARK-27762 (fixed in 3.0.0), at
> least on the write path, we would match the schemas by positionally
> ("structural" comparison). While I agree that this is much more sensible for
> default behavior, I propose that we make this behavior configurable using an
> {{option}} for the Avro datasource.
> There is precedence for configurability of this behavior as seen in
> SPARK-32864, which added this support for ORC. Besides this precedence, the
> behavior of Hive is to perform matching positionally
> ([ref|https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/AvroSerDe#AvroSerDe-WritingtablestoAvrofiles]),
> so this is behavior that Hadoop/Hive ecosystem users are familiar with:
> {quote}
> Hive is very forgiving about types: it will attempt to store whatever value
> matches the provided column in the equivalent column position in the new
> table. No matching is done on column names, for instance.
> {quote}
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