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Spark Issue: Runtimeerror: Arrow Legacy IPC Format Is Not Supported

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Symptoms

RuntimeError: Arrow legacy IPC format is not supported in PySpark, please unset ARROW_PRE_0_15_IPC_FORMAT

Possible Causes

You are using PySpark 3.0+ with one (or both) of the following options.

--conf …