Schema evolution issue

Confused
New Contributor III

Hi All

I am loading some data using auto loader but am having trouble with Schema evolution.

A new column has been added to the data I am loading and I am getting the following error:

StreamingQueryException: Encountered unknown field(s) during parsing: {"SomeField":{}}

I'm not 100% sure if this error is being thrown by autoloader or by structured streaming, but I am not specifying a schema on the CloudFiles config (Just a schema location) and I am setting the following option on the writeStream

.option("mergeSchema", "true")

Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

Cheers

Mat