[SPARK-26505] Catalog class Function is missing "database" field

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.1.0
• Component/s: PySpark
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Devin Boyer
• Created: 30/Dec/18 15:52
• Updated: 12/Dec/22 18:10

Description

This change fell out of the review of https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/20658, which is the implementation of https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-23488. The Scala Catalog class Function contains a `database` attribute, while the Python version does not.

 

To be consistent, it would likely be best to add the `database` attribute to the Python class. This would be a breaking API change, though (as discussed in this PR comment), so it would have to be made for Spark 3.0.0, the next major version where breaking API changes can occur.