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Rationale for this change

We currently run the Spark SQL test suites against 3.4.3, 3.5.8, and 4.0.1 in CI. This PR adds Spark 4.1.1 to that matrix so we can catch incompatibilities introduced by that release as early as possible.

What changes are included in this PR?

New dev/diffs/4.1.1.diff generated by applying dev/diffs/4.0.1.diff to the v4.1.1 Spark tag with git apply --reject and resolving rejects manually. Most rejects were import-only differences caused by surrounding-context changes in 4.1.1 (for example, ShuffleExchangeExec vs ShuffleExchangeLike and the additional comet imports). The pom.xml portion of the diff sets spark.version.short=4.1 so the patched Spark build pulls comet-spark-spark4.1_2.13.

Workflow update: {spark-short: '4.1', spark-full: '4.1.1', java: 17, scan-impl: 'auto'} entry added to .github/workflows/spark_sql_test.yml.

Docs update: expanded docs/source/contributor-guide/spark-sql-tests.md with two new sections covering (1) adding a profile and shim tree for a brand-new Spark minor, including the API-shape patterns above, and (2) running the SQL tests locally against a patched Spark clone (NOLINT_ON_COMPILE=true to skip Spark's scalastyle, and the -Dmaven.repo.local=/tmp/spark-m2-repo workaround for partially-cached ~/.m2 entries that confuse Coursier).

How are these changes tested?

Locally: make release PROFILES=-Pspark-4.1 builds cleanly. Against the patched Spark 4.1.1 source with ENABLE_COMET=true ENABLE_COMET_ONHEAP=true:

  • catalyst/test: 8472 tests passed.
  • sql/testOnly org.apache.spark.sql.MathFunctionsSuite: 61 tests passed.

The full SQL/Hive matrix will run as part of Spark SQL Tests on this PR; the run itself is the broader test plan.

Add a spark-4.1 Maven profile (root pom.xml and spark/pom.xml) targeting
Spark 4.1.1, generate dev/diffs/4.1.1.diff from the 4.0.1 diff, and add a
Spark 4.1.1 entry to the spark_sql_test workflow matrix.

The spark-4.1 profile reuses the spark-4.0 shim sources for now. Iceberg
and Jetty deps mirror the spark-4.0 profile.
…ment new-version workflow

Spark 4.1 widened IndexShuffleBlockResolver's third constructor parameter
from java.util.Map to java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap, so reflectively
invoking it with Collections.emptyMap() now fails with "argument type
mismatch". Pass a ConcurrentHashMap instead, which is assignable to both.

Also expand docs/source/contributor-guide/spark-sql-tests.md with the
profile/shim setup and local sbt workflow lessons (NOLINT_ON_COMPILE,
fresh -Dmaven.repo.local, common API-shape changes between Spark
minors).
Mirror spark-4.0 test shim tree so JVM tests can compile under -Pspark-4.1.
Wire isSpark41Plus into CometPlanStabilitySuite and update regenerate-golden-files.sh to accept --spark-version 4.1. Generated golden files for tpcds v1.4 and v2.7 under approved-plans-{v1_4,v2_7}-spark4_1.
Mirrors the spark-4.0 CometTypeShim helper that apache#4084 added to the scan rule. VariantMetadata.isVariantStruct exists in Spark 4.1.1 (in PushVariantIntoScan.scala) so the implementation is identical to spark-4.0.
Comet's Maven phase resolves the transitive dependency graph and pulls POMs for artifacts whose JARs it never needs. When sbt then resolves Spark's deps, sbt-coursier sees the POM in mavenLocal, declares the artifact found locally, and fails on the missing JAR without falling back to Maven Central. Delete pom-only entries (where packaging is jar/bundle) between Comet's install and sbt's update so sbt re-fetches the full artifact remotely. Hit on Spark 4.1 jobs because the cached scala-xml_2.13:2.1.0 pom blocks Spark's tags subproject from resolving the JAR.
Adds a Spark 4.1, JDK 17 entry to lint-java and linux-test in pr_build_linux.yml and a Spark 4.1, Scala 2.13 entry to pr_build_macos.yml so PR builds exercise the new spark-4.1 profile alongside 3.4/3.5/4.0.
semanticdb-scalac_2.13.17:4.13.6 is not published; the most recent semanticdb build for the 2.13 branch is for 2.13.16. Scala 2.13 is binary-stable across patch versions, so Comet compiled with 2.13.16 still links against Spark 4.1.1's 2.13.17 runtime.
Reverts the 2.13.16 pin: Spark 4.1.1 is compiled against 2.13.17 and emits calls into MurmurHash3 stdlib methods that don't exist in 2.13.16, so any TreeNode hashCode at runtime throws NoSuchMethodError. semanticdb-scalac_2.13.17 isn't published yet, so drop the spark-4.1 entry from the lint-java matrix (which runs -Psemanticdb scalafix); the linux-test matrix entry stays. Verified locally: ./mvnw test -Pspark-4.1 -Dsuites=org.apache.comet.CometFuzzMathSuite passes 30/30.
The scala-2.13 profile sets scala.version=2.13.16, overriding the spark-4.1 profile's 2.13.17 pin. Activating both produced a 2.13.16 runtime that hits NoSuchMethodError on Spark 4.1.1's TreeNode.hashCode (calls into MurmurHash3 stdlib methods added in 2.13.17). The spark-4.1 profile already sets scala.binary.version=2.13, so -Pscala-2.13 is redundant.
1. CometNativeWriteExec: Spark 4.1 made newTaskTempFile(taskContext, dir, ext: String) throw mustOverrideOneMethodError by default; the FileNameSpec overload is now the supported one. Switch the call to use FileNameSpec("", ""), which exists in 3.4 onward, so it works across all profiles.

2. CometExpressionSuite remainder function test: Spark 4.1 introduced REMAINDER_BY_ZERO for the % operator instead of reusing DIVIDE_BY_ZERO. Branch the expected error message on isSpark41Plus.
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import org.apache.spark.sql.types.{DataType, StringType, StructType}

trait CometTypeShim {
// A `StringType` carries collation metadata in Spark 4.0. Only non-default (non-UTF8_BINARY)
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If this is common for Spark 4.0 and Spark 4.1, we can move it from spark-4.0 to spark-4.x.

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It looks most shims in Spark 4.1 are identical to Spark 4.0 except for CometExprShim. I added a CometSumShim for Spark 4.1 in #2829 and moved other shims from spark-4.0 to spark-4.x.

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@andygrove Has this been superseded by #4097 and #4106?

@andygrove andygrove changed the title build: add spark-4.1 profile and enable Spark 4.1.1 SQL tests [WIP] build: Enable Spark SQL test for Spark 4.1.1 Apr 28, 2026
@andygrove andygrove changed the title build: Enable Spark SQL test for Spark 4.1.1 build: Enable Spark SQL tests for Spark 4.1.1 Apr 28, 2026
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@andygrove Has this been superseded by #4097 and #4106?

This pr has been rebased and now just enables the spark sql tests

Patches dev/diffs/4.1.1.diff to handle the four failing CI jobs:

- CollationSuite 'hash agg is not used for non binary collations':
  recognise CometHashAggregateExec in the binary-collation plan-shape
  assertion (the existing patch already handled the join-shape cases).

- StreamRealTimeModeAllowlistSuite: mix in IgnoreCometSuite. The
  suite asserts on hard-coded operator-name strings that Comet
  replaces, and the allowlist mechanism is orthogonal to Comet.

- Disable Comet for hll.sql, except-all.sql, intersect-all.sql,
  having-and-order-by-recursive-type-name-resolution.sql via
  --SET spark.comet.enabled = false, and tag SPARK-53968 in
  SQLViewSuite with IgnoreComet. Each carries a TODO link to the
  follow-up issue tracking the underlying Comet bug:

  - issues/4121: native scan rejects invalid UTF-8 in STRING column
  - issues/4122: EXCEPT ALL / INTERSECT ALL with GROUP BY incorrect
  - issues/4123: native sort lacks row-format support for Struct(Map)
  - issues/4124: decimal arithmetic 10x discrepancy through view CTE
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andygrove and others added 12 commits April 28, 2026 16:33
Skip 9 tests failing in Spark 4.1.1 SQL test CI:
- ParquetIOSuite: 5 "missing all struct fields" tests (apache#4136)
- CachedBatchSerializerNoUnwrapSuite: plan replacement (apache#4137)
- JoinSuite: SPARK-49386 SMJ spill by size threshold
- SQLQueryTestSuite: intersect-all.sql trailing whitespace in golden files

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Spark 4.1.1 SQL tests are being killed in CI, likely from the JVM
hitting the 16 GB ubuntu-24.04 runner ceiling. Raise SBT to 6 GB via
-mem 6144 and set _JAVA_OPTIONS so forked test JVMs get 4 GB heap,
1 GB metaspace, and 512 MB code cache. Apply to all Spark versions
since the headroom is harmless for 3.4/3.5/4.0.
_JAVA_OPTIONS applies to every JVM on the runner, including the SBT
launcher started by build/sbt. With -mem 6144, the launcher already
sets -Xms6g -Xmx6g; _JAVA_OPTIONS=-Xmx4g then overrides Xmx, leaving
Xms (6g) > Xmx (4g) and the JVM refuses to start. Keep -mem 6144 for
the SBT JVM and drop _JAVA_OPTIONS.
Standard ubuntu-24.04 GitHub-hosted runners (4 vCPU / 16 GB) are
running out of memory on the Spark 4.1.1 SQL test matrix. Switch
the spark-sql-test job to the same runs-on.com self-hosted pool
already used by pr_build_linux.yml: family=m8a+m7a+c8a, cpu=16,
which yields 32-64 GB RAM depending on family selection. Forks
without access to the Apache pool fall back to ubuntu-latest.

Drop the now-unused matrix.os axis (only ubuntu-24.04 was listed).
…L files

Two follow-ups from the first runs-on.com run on spark-4.1.1:

1. HiveSparkSubmitSuite (SPARK-8020) failed on the runs-on.com
   ubuntu24-full-x64 image because spark-submit's Ivy config references a
   'local-m2-cache' resolver that the image does not provide. Pin every
   sql_hive-* matrix entry back to the standard ubuntu-24.04 runner where
   the resolver is preconfigured. Catalyst and sql_core entries continue
   to use the runs-on.com 16-cpu pool.

2. Three SQLQueryTestSuite cases newly visible after the OOMs were
   resolved are added to ignoreList in the 4.1.1 spark diff:
   - replacing-missing-expression-with-alias.sql and in-set-operations.sql
     have ORDER BY ties whose row order is non-deterministic under high
     parallelism (revealed by the faster runner, not a Comet bug).
   - thetasketch.sql fails with a CometNativeException because
     theta_sketch binary output is read as UTF-8 over collated strings;
     skip pending Comet support or fallback for theta-sketch on collation.
After resolving the OOMs and pinning Hive jobs, two more failure jobs
surfaced on the runs-on.com run, all rooted in the same plan-shape
divergence: tests collect on concrete Spark types (UnionExec,
ShuffleExchangeExec, ReusedExchangeExec) that Comet replaces with its
own operators, so the collected list is empty and head/.size == 1
fails.

Two follow-up edits to the 4.1.1 diff:

1. StreamingQuerySuite: extend the existing ShuffleExchangeExec ->
   ShuffleExchangeLike substitution to the SPARK-53942 cases (stateless
   partition change and stateful partitions retained from checkpoint).
   CometColumnarExchange satisfies ShuffleExchangeLike, so the
   numPartitions assertions still validate the expected behavior.

2. DataFrameSetOperationsSuite: tag the three SPARK-52921 union
   partitioning tests with IgnoreComet. UnionExec and ReusedExchangeExec
   have no equivalent broad trait, so skipping is the cleanest path
   until Comet exposes compatible plan markers.
The three SPARK-52921 IgnoreComet tags added in the previous commit
described the symptom in the reason argument; convention is to point
to a tracking issue instead so the reason stays useful as Comet
evolves. Use the umbrella issue
apache#4098.
To iterate faster on the spark-4.1.1 work, narrow the CI surface to
the Spark SQL Tests workflow with only the 4.1.1 matrix entry, and
gate the heavier workflows behind a never-matching paths filter so
they no longer trigger on PRs from this branch:

- spark_sql_test.yml: 3.4 / 3.5 / 4.0 matrix entries commented out
- pr_build_linux.yml, pr_build_macos.yml, iceberg_spark_test.yml,
  miri.yml, codeql.yml: pull_request trigger restricted to
  'DISABLED_FOR_spark-4.1.1_iteration'

Each change carries a TEMP comment explaining how to revert before
this branch merges back to main.
After the previous commit replaced every ShuffleExchangeExec match with
ShuffleExchangeLike in StreamingQuerySuite, the import became unused
and Spark's fatal-warnings policy turned it into a build break:

  StreamingQuerySuite.scala:46:100: Unused import [fatal]

Remove ShuffleExchangeExec from the exchange import list; the other
imports (REQUIRED_BY_STATEFUL_OPERATOR, ReusedExchangeExec) are still
used elsewhere in the file.
The 'bounded memory usage calculation - with colFamiliesEnabled=true
(with changelog checkpointing)' case fails the assertion at line 420
(getNumRocksDBInstances(false) == 0) when run on the runs-on.com
16-cpu pool. The failure is upstream test isolation: the suite shares
RocksDBMemoryManager state with other tests in the JVM and only the
first of four parameterized variants flakes, depending on what was
left registered by earlier tests. Comet does not touch state stores,
so this is not a Comet-specific behavior.

Mix in IgnoreCometSuite on RocksDBStateStoreIntegrationSuite to skip
the whole suite while Comet is enabled. Track under the umbrella
issue apache#4098.
# Conflicts:
#	.github/workflows/spark_sql_test.yml
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