Github user yhuai commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/7841#discussion_r44571747
--- Diff: sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/GroupedData.scala ---
@@ -273,6 +280,60 @@ class GroupedData protected[sql](
def sum(colNames: String*): DataFrame = {
aggregateNumericColumns(colNames : _*)(Sum)
}
+
+ /**
+ * (Scala-specific) Pivots a column of the current [[DataFrame]] and
preform the specified
+ * aggregation.
+ * {{{
+ * // Compute the sum of earnings for each year by course with each
course as a separate column
+ * df.groupBy($"year").pivot($"course", "dotNET",
"Java").agg(sum($"earnings"))
+ * // Or without specifying column values
+ * df.groupBy($"year").pivot($"course").agg(sum($"earnings"))
+ * }}}
--- End diff --
Yeah. Let's add that. In our error message, we can ask users to change the
value of that conf (btw, let's make sure the default value of that conf is
large enough for common use cases).
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