[SPARK-31536] Backport SPARK-25407 Allow nested access for non-existent field for Parquet file when nested pruning is enabled

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 2.4.6
• Component/s: SQL
• Target Version/s: 2.4.6
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Holden Karau
• Created: 23/Apr/20 20:02
• Updated: 12/Dec/22 18:10
• Resolved: 27/Apr/20 23:46

Description

Consider backporting SPARK-25407       Allow nested access for non-existent field for Parquet file when nested pruning is enabled to 2.4.6

Issue Links

• depends upon: SPARK-25407 Spark throws a `ParquetDecodingException` when attempting to read a field from a complex type in certain cases of schema merging