[SPARK-41823] DataFrame.join creating ambiguous column names - ASF JIRA

Details

Type: Sub-task
Status: Resolved
Priority: Major
Resolution: Duplicate
Affects Version/s: 3.4.0
Fix Version/s: None
Component/s: Connect
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Description

File "/Users/s.singh/personal/spark-oss/python/pyspark/sql/connect/dataframe.py", line 254, in pyspark.sql.connect.dataframe.DataFrame.drop
Failed example:
    df.join(df2, df.name == df2.name, 'inner').drop('name').show()
Exception raised:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@3.10/3.10.8/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/doctest.py", line 1350, in __run
        exec(compile(example.source, filename, "single",
      File "<doctest pyspark.sql.connect.dataframe.DataFrame.drop[5]>", line 1, in <module>
        df.join(df2, df.name == df2.name, 'inner').drop('name').show()
      File "/Users/s.singh/personal/spark-oss/python/pyspark/sql/connect/dataframe.py", line 534, in show
        print(self._show_string(n, truncate, vertical))
      File "/Users/s.singh/personal/spark-oss/python/pyspark/sql/connect/dataframe.py", line 423, in _show_string
        ).toPandas()
      File "/Users/s.singh/personal/spark-oss/python/pyspark/sql/connect/dataframe.py", line 1031, in toPandas
        return self._session.client.to_pandas(query)
      File "/Users/s.singh/personal/spark-oss/python/pyspark/sql/connect/client.py", line 413, in to_pandas
        return self._execute_and_fetch(req)
      File "/Users/s.singh/personal/spark-oss/python/pyspark/sql/connect/client.py", line 573, in _execute_and_fetch
        self._handle_error(rpc_error)
      File "/Users/s.singh/personal/spark-oss/python/pyspark/sql/connect/client.py", line 619, in _handle_error
        raise SparkConnectAnalysisException(
    pyspark.sql.connect.client.SparkConnectAnalysisException: [AMBIGUOUS_REFERENCE] Reference `name` is ambiguous, could be: [`name`, `name`].
    Plan: