[SPARK-30091] Document mergeSchema option directly in the Python Parquet APIs

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.4.4
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: PySpark, SQL
• Assignee: Nicholas Chammas
• Reporter: Nicholas Chammas
• Created: 02/Dec/19 02:03
• Updated: 12/Dec/22 18:11
• Resolved: 04/Dec/19 02:32

Description

http://spark.apache.org/docs/2.4.4/api/python/pyspark.sql.html#pyspark.sql.DataFrameReader.parquet

Strangely, the `mergeSchema` option is mentioned in the docstring but not implemented in the method signature.

Issue Links

• is related to: SPARK-30113 Document mergeSchema option in Python Orc APIs
• is related to: SPARK-30128 Promote remaining "hidden" PySpark DataFrameReader options to load APIs
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #26730