GitHub user davies opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1977
[SPARK-3074] [PySpark] support groupByKey() with single huge key This patch change groupByKey() to use external sort based approach, so it can support single huge key. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/davies/spark groupby Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1977.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #1977 ---- commit 55602ee6122aa5ce5b3f52b66cb0a74a6e275fba Author: Davies Liu <davies....@gmail.com> Date: 2014-08-15T21:48:34Z use external sort in sortBy() and sortByKey() commit 083d842b2e784674d2ec6823ac4da81140ac48cd Author: Davies Liu <davies....@gmail.com> Date: 2014-08-16T00:28:06Z sorted based groupByKey() ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. --- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: reviews-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: reviews-h...@spark.apache.org