Github user viirya commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/16371#discussion_r94104643 --- Diff: sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/expressions/aggregate/collect.scala --- @@ -29,12 +30,10 @@ import org.apache.spark.sql.types._ /** * The Collect aggregate function collects all seen expression values into a list of values. * - * The operator is bound to the slower sort based aggregation path because the number of - * elements (and their memory usage) can not be determined in advance. This also means that the - * collected elements are stored on heap, and that too many elements can cause GC pauses and - * eventually Out of Memory Errors. + * We have to store all the collected elements in memory, and that too many elements can cause GC + * paused and eventually OutOfMemory Errors. */ -abstract class Collect extends ImperativeAggregate { +abstract class Collect[T] extends TypedImperativeAggregate[T] { --- End diff -- yeah, that's good idea.
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