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Document issues with using coalesce in Spark #34

Closed harterrt closed 7 years ago

fbertsch commented 7 years ago

This behavior is by design, but it's definitely worth having this documented. [0] is insightful in understanding why Spark behaves this way.

[0] http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/partitions-coalesce-and-parallelism-tp8189p8263.html