Hello, When reading an older ORC file where the schema is a subset of the current schema, reader throws an error. Please see sample code below (ran on spark 2.1). The same commands on a parquet file do not error out, they return the new column with null values. Is there a setting to add to the reader for ORC file to achieve the same behavior?
Thanks, Isabelle scala> case class Schema1(id: String) defined class Schema1 scala> case class Schema2(id: String, new_column: String) defined class Schema2 scala> import org.apache.spark.sql.Encoders import org.apache.spark.sql.Encoders scala> spark.read.schema(Encoders.product[Schema1].schema).format("orc").load("path_to_orc_file").show +----------+ | id| +----------+ | 9930481| | 119474983| | 4665129| | 27531864| | 41562099| | 110502758| +----------+ scala> spark.read.schema(Encoders.product[Schema2].schema).format("orc").load("path_to_orc_file").show 19/08/31 03:26:39 WARN TaskSetManager: Lost task 0.0 in stage 1.0 (TID 1, ip-10-x-y-z.ap-northeast-2.compute.internal, executor 1): java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Field "new_column" does not exist. at org.apache.spark.sql.types.StructType$$anonfun$fieldIndex$1.apply(StructType.scala:290) at org.apache.spark.sql.types.StructType$$anonfun$fieldIndex$1.apply(StructType.scala:290) at scala.collection.MapLike$class.getOrElse(MapLike.scala:128) at scala.collection.AbstractMap.getOrElse(Map.scala:59) at org.apache.spark.sql.types.StructType.fieldIndex(StructType.scala:289) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.orc.OrcRelation$$anonfun$6.apply(OrcFileFormat.scala:308) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.orc.OrcRelation$$anonfun$6.apply(OrcFileFormat.scala:308) at scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:234) at scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:234) at scala.collection.Iterator$class.foreach(Iterator.scala:893) at scala.collection.AbstractIterator.foreach(Iterator.scala:1336) at scala.collection.IterableLike$class.foreach(IterableLike.scala:72) at org.apache.spark.sql.types.StructType.foreach(StructType.scala:96) at scala.collection.TraversableLike$class.map(TraversableLike.scala:234) at org.apache.spark.sql.types.StructType.map(StructType.scala:96) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.orc.OrcRelation$.setRequiredColumns(OrcFileFormat.scala:308) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.orc.OrcFileFormat$$anonfun$buildReader$2.apply(OrcFileFormat.scala:140) at org.apache.spark.sql.hive.orc.OrcFileFormat$$anonfun$buildReader$2.apply(OrcFileFormat.scala:129) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.FileFormat$$anon$1.apply(FileFormat.scala:138) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.FileFormat$$anon$1.apply(FileFormat.scala:122) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.FileScanRDD$$anon$1.nextIterator(FileScanRDD.scala:150) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.FileScanRDD$$anon$1.hasNext(FileScanRDD.scala:102) at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.expressions.GeneratedClass$GeneratedIterator.processNext(Unknown Source) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.BufferedRowIterator.hasNext(BufferedRowIterator.java:43) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.WholeStageCodegenExec$$anonfun$8$$anon$1.hasNext(WholeStageCodegenExec.scala:377) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan$$anonfun$2.apply(SparkPlan.scala:231) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan$$anonfun$2.apply(SparkPlan.scala:225) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD$$anonfun$mapPartitionsInternal$1$$anonfun$apply$25.apply(RDD.scala:826) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD$$anonfun$mapPartitionsInternal$1$$anonfun$apply$25.apply(RDD.scala:826) at org.apache.spark.rdd.MapPartitionsRDD.compute(MapPartitionsRDD.scala:38) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.computeOrReadCheckpoint(RDD.scala:323) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.iterator(RDD.scala:287) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ResultTask.runTask(ResultTask.scala:87) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.Task.run(Task.scala:99) at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.run(Executor.scala:282) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) //Instead of error, expected following +----------+----------+ | id|new_column| +----------+----------+ | 9930481| null| | 119474983| null| | 4665129| null| | 4665129| null| | 27531864| null| | 41562099| null| | 41562099| null| | 110502758| null| +----------+----------+