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diff --git a/docs/structured-streaming-programming-guide.md b/docs/structured-streaming-programming-guide.md index c7ed3b04bc..2e6df94823 100644 --- a/docs/structured-streaming-programming-guide.md +++ b/docs/structured-streaming-programming-guide.md @@ -512,6 +512,12 @@ csvDF = spark \ These examples generate streaming DataFrames that are untyped, meaning that the schema of the DataFrame is not checked at compile time, only checked at runtime when the query is submitted. Some operations like `map`, `flatMap`, etc. need the type to be known at compile time. To do those, you can convert these untyped streaming DataFrames to typed streaming Datasets using the same methods as static DataFrame. See the [SQL Programming Guide](sql-programming-guide.html) for more details. Additionally, more details on the supported streaming sources are discussed later in the document. +### Schema inference and partition of streaming DataFrames/Datasets + +By default, Structured Streaming from file based sources requires you to specify the schema, rather than rely on Spark to infer it automatically. This restriction ensures a consistent schema will be used for the streaming query, even in the case of failures. For ad-hoc use cases, you can reenable schema inference by setting `spark.sql.streaming.schemaInference` to `true`. + +Partition discovery does occur when subdirectories that are named `/key=value/` are present and listing will automatically recurse into these directories. If these columns appear in the user provided schema, they will be filled in by Spark based on the path of the file being read. The directories that make up the partitioning scheme must be present when the query starts and must remain static. For example, it is okay to add `/data/year=2016/` when `/data/year=2015/` was present, but it is invalid to change the partitioning column (i.e. by creating the directory `/data/date=2016-04-17/`). + ## Operations on streaming DataFrames/Datasets You can apply all kinds of operations on streaming DataFrames/Datasets – ranging from untyped, SQL-like operations (e.g. `select`, `where`, `groupBy`), to typed RDD-like operations (e.g. `map`, `filter`, `flatMap`). See the [SQL programming guide](sql-programming-guide.html) for more details. Let’s take a look at a few example operations that you can use. |