[SPARK-9146] NaN should be greater than all other values

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Target Version/s: 1.5.0
• Assignee: Josh Rosen
• Reporter: Reynold Xin
• Created: 18/Jul/15 00:21
• Updated: 21/Jul/15 05:38
• Resolved: 21/Jul/15 05:38

Description

Based on the design in SPARK-9079, NaN should be greater than all other non-NaN numeric values.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: SPARK-8797 Sorting float/double column containing NaNs can lead to "Comparison method violates its general contract!" errors
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #7194 (JoshRosen)