Description
A simple case
select count(1) from test group by e grouping sets(e)
Schema of the test table
scala> spark.sql("desc test").show() +--------+---------+-------+ |col_name|data_type|comment| +--------+---------+-------+ | e| string| null| +--------+---------+-------+
The column `e` is empty
scala> spark.sql("select e from test").show() +----+ | e| +----+ |null| |null| +----+
Exception
Driver stacktrace: at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.org$apache$spark$scheduler$DAGScheduler$$failJobAndIndependentStages(DAGScheduler.scala:1435) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$abortStage$1.apply(DAGScheduler.scala:1423) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$abortStage$1.apply(DAGScheduler.scala:1422) at scala.collection.mutable.ResizableArray$class.foreach(ResizableArray.scala:59) at scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer.foreach(ArrayBuffer.scala:48) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.abortStage(DAGScheduler.scala:1422) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$handleTaskSetFailed$1.apply(DAGScheduler.scala:802) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$handleTaskSetFailed$1.apply(DAGScheduler.scala:802) at scala.Option.foreach(Option.scala:257) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.handleTaskSetFailed(DAGScheduler.scala:802) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGSchedulerEventProcessLoop.doOnReceive(DAGScheduler.scala:1650) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGSchedulerEventProcessLoop.onReceive(DAGScheduler.scala:1605) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGSchedulerEventProcessLoop.onReceive(DAGScheduler.scala:1594) at org.apache.spark.util.EventLoop$$anon$1.run(EventLoop.scala:48) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.runJob(DAGScheduler.scala:628) at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.runJob(SparkContext.scala:1918) at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.runJob(SparkContext.scala:1931) at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.runJob(SparkContext.scala:1944) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan.executeTake(SparkPlan.scala:333) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.CollectLimitExec.executeCollect(limit.scala:38) at org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset$$anonfun$org$apache$spark$sql$Dataset$$execute$1$1.apply(Dataset.scala:2371) at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SQLExecution$.withNewExecutionId(SQLExecution.scala:57) at org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset.withNewExecutionId(Dataset.scala:2765) at org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset.org$apache$spark$sql$Dataset$$execute$1(Dataset.scala:2370) at org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset.org$apache$spark$sql$Dataset$$collect(Dataset.scala:2377) at org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset$$anonfun$head$1.apply(Dataset.scala:2113) at org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset$$anonfun$head$1.apply(Dataset.scala:2112) at org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset.withTypedCallback(Dataset.scala:2795) at org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset.head(Dataset.scala:2112) at org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset.take(Dataset.scala:2327) at org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset.showString(Dataset.scala:248) at org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset.show(Dataset.scala:636) at org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset.show(Dataset.scala:595) at org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset.show(Dataset.scala:604) ... 48 elided Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.expressions.GeneratedClass$GeneratedIterator.agg_doAggregateWithKeys$(Unknown Source) at org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.expressions.GeneratedClass$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 scala.collection.Iterator$$anon$11.hasNext(Iterator.scala:408) at org.apache.spark.shuffle.sort.BypassMergeSortShuffleWriter.write(BypassMergeSortShuffleWriter.java:126) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ShuffleMapTask.runTask(ShuffleMapTask.scala:96) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ShuffleMapTask.runTask(ShuffleMapTask.scala:53) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.Task.run(Task.scala:99) at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$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)