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Commit e2f32ee4 authored by Herman van Hovell's avatar Herman van Hovell Committed by Wenchen Fan
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[SPARK-21258][SQL] Fix WindowExec complex object aggregation with spilling

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?
`WindowExec` currently improperly stores complex objects (UnsafeRow, UnsafeArrayData, UnsafeMapData, UTF8String) during aggregation by keeping a reference in the buffer used by `GeneratedMutableProjections` to the actual input data. Things go wrong when the input object (or the backing bytes) are reused for other things. This could happen in window functions when it starts spilling to disk. When reading the back the spill files the `UnsafeSorterSpillReader` reuses the buffer to which the `UnsafeRow` points, leading to weird corruption scenario's. Note that this only happens for aggregate functions that preserve (parts of) their input, for example `FIRST`, `LAST`, `MIN` & `MAX`.

This was not seen before, because the spilling logic was not doing actual spills as much and actually used an in-memory page. This page was not cleaned up during window processing and made sure unsafe objects point to their own dedicated memory location. This was changed by https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/16909, after this PR Spark spills more eagerly.

This PR provides a surgical fix because we are close to releasing Spark 2.2. This change just makes sure that there cannot be any object reuse at the expensive of a little bit of performance. We will follow-up with a more subtle solution at a later point.

## How was this patch tested?
Added a regression test to `DataFrameWindowFunctionsSuite`.

Author: Herman van Hovell <hvanhovell@databricks.com>

Closes #18470 from hvanhovell/SPARK-21258.
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