[SPARK-20290] PySpark Column should provide eqNullSafe

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.0
• Component/s: PySpark, SQL
• Assignee: Maciej Szymkiewicz
• Reporter: Maciej Szymkiewicz
• Created: 11/Apr/17 08:46
• Updated: 01/May/17 16:44
• Resolved: 01/May/17 16:44

Description

NULL safe equality operators are missing from PySpark and (a == b) | (a.isNull & b.isNull) creates a suboptimal execution plan.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #17605 (zero323)