Github user jayunit100 commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1254#issuecomment-49602573
Adding the Drop function to a contrib library of functions (which requires
manual import) , as erik suggests, seems like a really good option. I could
see such a contrib library also being useful for other isoteric but
nevertheless important tasks, like dealing with binary data formats, etc
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