Production-Style Ingestion with Schema Merging

How do we read evolving Parquet partitions with schema merging enabled in production?

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🤔 THE QUESTION

How do we read evolving Parquet partitions with schema merging enabled in production?

💡 WHAT IS IT?

Configuring mergeSchema to automatically reconcile schema evolution and new columns across historical data partitions.

🎯 WHAT IS IT USED FOR?

Silver-layer lakehouse ingestion where upstream microservices frequently add new event payload properties.

💻 EXAMPLE

source_df = spark.read \
    .format("parquet") \
    .option("mergeSchema", "true") \
    .load("data/lakehouse/silver_events")

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