shardulm94 opened a new pull request #34839:
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/34839
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### What changes were proposed in this pull request?
When analyzing a view, we should not unnecessarily mark nested fields as
nullable. If the columns projected by the view define themselves as
non-nullable, their nullability should be preserved.
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### Why are the changes needed?
Consider a view as follows with all fields non-nullable (required)
```
spark.sql("""
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW v AS
SELECT id, named_struct('a', id) AS nested
FROM RANGE(10)
""")
```
When trying to read this view, it incorrectly marks nested column a as
nullable
```
scala> spark.table("v2").printSchema
root
|-- id: long (nullable = false)
|-- nested: struct (nullable = false)
| |-- a: long (nullable = true)
```
However, we can see that the view schema has been correctly stored as
non-nullable
```
scala>
System.out.println(spark.sessionState.catalog.externalCatalog.getTable("default",
"v2"))
CatalogTable(
Database: default
Table: v2
.
.
.
Schema: root
|-- id: long (nullable = false)
|-- nested: struct (nullable = false)
| |-- a: long (nullable = false)
)
```
This is caused by [this
line](https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/fb40c0e19f84f2de9a3d69d809e9e4031f76ef90/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/analysis/Analyzer.scala#L3546)
in Analyzer.scala. Going through the history of changes for this block of
code, it seems like `asNullable` is a remnant of a time before we added
[checks](https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/fb40c0e19f84f2de9a3d69d809e9e4031f76ef90/sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/analysis/Analyzer.scala#L3543)
to ensure that the from and to types of the cast were compatible. As
nullability is already checked, it should be safe to add a cast without
converting the target datatype to nullable.
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### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
Yes. View analysis will preserve nullability of nested fields instead of
marking all nested fields as nullable.
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