chore: remove strict cast validations

Author: fabclmnt

examples/features/spark_example.py

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     spark_session = (
-        SparkSession.builder.appName("SparkProfiling").master("local[*]").getOrCreate()
+        SparkSession.builder.appName("SparkProfiling").master("local[*]").config("spark.sql.ansi.enabled", "false").getOrCreate()
     )
 
     print(spark_session.sparkContext.uiWebUrl)  # noqa: T201

tests/conftest.py

@@ -105,7 +105,13 @@ def spark_session(spark_context):
     """
     if not has_spark:
         pytest.skip("Skipping Spark tests because PySpark is not installed.")
-    spark = SparkSession.builder.config(conf=spark_context.getConf()).getOrCreate()
+    spark = (
+            SparkSession.builder
+            .master("local[*]")
+            .appName("pytest")
+            .config("spark.sql.ansi.enabled", "false")  # <-- restore permissive casts
+            .getOrCreate()
+        )
 
     yield spark