days

Partition transform function: A transform for timestamps and dates to partition data into days. Supports Spark Connect.

Warning

Deprecated in 4.0.0. Use partitioning.days instead.

Syntax

from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf

dbf.days(col=<col>)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
col	pyspark.sql.Column or str	Target date or timestamp column to work on.

Returns

pyspark.sql.Column: Data partitioned by days.

Examples

df.writeTo("catalog.db.table").partitionedBy(
    days("ts")
).createOrReplace()

Note

This function can be used only in combination with the partitionedBy method of the DataFrameWriterV2.