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I am running in to this error when I am trying to select a couple of columns from the temporary table.

pd_df = pd.read_sql('select * from abc.cars limit 10', conn)
df = spark.createDataFrame(pd_df)
df.createOrReplaceTempView("cars_tmp")
df.show()
print('***************')
print("Reading from tmp table")
data = spark.sql('select location_id from cars_tmp')
data.show()
AnalysisException: cannot resolve '`location_id`' given input columns: [cars_tmp.abc.product_id, cars_tmp.abc.location_id ...]
When I select all the columns I get the results. So this is successful:
data = spark.sql('select * from cars_tmp')
data.show()
I tried below queries but they fail as well with the same error:
data = spark.sql('select cars_tmp.abc.location_id from cars_tmp')
data.show()
data = spark.sql('select cars_tmp.location_id from cars_tmp')
data.show()
data = spark.sql('select abc.location_id from cars_tmp')
data.show()
I am running these in datbricks.
Databricks runtime version: 7.0
Apache Spark version: 3.0
scala: 2.12
or "spark_version": "7.0.x-scala2.12",
Any help will be highly appreciated.
Thanks
                Can you try ‘cars_tmp.abc.location_id’. Ie with backticks to escape the name. You could also try print(data.columns) to get the names.
– simon_dmorias
                Sep 23, 2020 at 19:51
The column name does not exist in the table. select * from cars_tmp works because you do not specify the column name.
Please see this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/64042756/8913402 with the same error handling.
I resolved the issue by add each column in the panda select query. So something like this:
pd_df = pd.read_sql('select id, location_id, product_id from abc.cars limit 10', conn)
        
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