Github user tdas commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/831#discussion_r12824809
--- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/RDD.scala ---
@@ -118,8 +118,25 @@ abstract class RDD[T: ClassTag](
// Methods and fields available on all RDDs
//
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+ /** Accessor method which throws a runtime exception if null. This lets
us have
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The reason I am afraid about introducing a getPartitioner() is that it
changes the public API of RDD, which does not seem to be worth it to solve this
problem.
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