GitHub user dongjoon-hyun opened a pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/19571
[SPARK-15474][SQL] Write and read back non-emtpy schema with empty dataframe
## What changes were proposed in this pull request?
Previously, ORC file format cannot write a correct schema in case of empty
dataframe. Instead, it creates an empty ORC file with **empty** schema,
`struct<>`. So, Spark users cannot write and read back ORC files with non-empty
schema and no rows. This PR uses new Apache ORC 1.4.1 to create an empty ORC
file with a correct schema. Also, this PR uses ORC 1.4.1 to infer schema always.
**BEFORE**
```scala
scala> val emptyDf = Seq((true, 1, "str")).toDF("a", "b", "c").limit(0)
scala> emptyDf.write.format("orc").mode("overwrite").save("/tmp/empty")
scala> spark.read.format("orc").load("/tmp/empty").printSchema
org.apache.spark.sql.AnalysisException: Unable to infer schema for ORC. It
must be specified manually.;
```
**AFTER**
```scala
scala> val emptyDf = Seq((true, 1, "str")).toDF("a", "b", "c").limit(0)
scala> emptyDf.write.format("orc").mode("overwrite").save("/tmp/empty")
scala> spark.read.format("orc").load("/tmp/empty").printSchema
root
|-- a: boolean (nullable = true)
|-- b: integer (nullable = true)
|-- c: string (nullable = true)
```
## How was this patch tested?
Pass the Jenkins with newly added test cases.
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Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:
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This closes #19571
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commit be7ba9b5a9c70519a7fa1b0497955fbba763e2e6
Author: Dongjoon Hyun <dongj...@apache.org>
Date: 2017-10-25T02:50:33Z
[SPARK-15474][SQL] Write and read back non-emtpy schema with empty dataframe
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