Github user viirya commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/15821#discussion_r108581072 --- Diff: sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/Dataset.scala --- @@ -2828,4 +2839,16 @@ class Dataset[T] private[sql]( Dataset(sparkSession, logicalPlan) } } + + /** Convert to an RDD of ArrowPayload byte arrays */ + private[sql] def toArrowPayloadBytes(): RDD[Array[Byte]] = { + val schema_captured = this.schema + queryExecution.toRdd.mapPartitionsInternal { iter => + val converter = new ArrowConverters + val payload = converter.interalRowIterToPayload(iter, schema_captured) + val payloadBytes = ArrowConverters.payloadToByteArray(payload, schema_captured) --- End diff -- This works now by consuming all rows from the iterator at once and constructing a `ArrowPayload` for them. It might harm for memory usage if the rows are huge. I think a better way might be to only construct a `ArrowPayload` for a group of rows, not all rows.
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