Github user pwendell commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/44#discussion_r10192944 --- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/SparkContext.scala --- @@ -847,6 +847,8 @@ class SparkContext( partitions: Seq[Int], allowLocal: Boolean, resultHandler: (Int, U) => Unit) { + val rddPartitions = rdd.partitions.map(_.index) + require(partitions.forall(rddPartitions.contains(_)), "partition index out of range") --- End diff -- Do you mind explaining a bit more the case where these two will not match? I'm just wondering if it make more sense to check this invariant inside of the `getPartitions` function of `ShuffleRDD.scala` - but maybe there are other code paths where this could get messed up that don't go through that.
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