[AVRO-2328] Support distinguishing between LocalDateTime and Instant semantics in timestamps

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.10.0
• Assignee: Nándor Kollár
• Reporter: Zoltan Ivanfi
• Created: 28/Feb/19 16:34
• Updated: 02/Nov/20 14:32
• Resolved: 08/Jul/19 14:44

Description

Different SQL engines of the Hadoop stack support different timestamp semantics. The range of supported semantics is about to be extended even further. While some of the new timestamp types can be added to SQL without explicit support from the file formats, others require new physical types. File format support would be beneficial even for timestamp semantics where it is not strictly required, because it would enable correct interpretation without an SQL schema or any other kind of manual configuration.

This JIRA is about supporting the LocalDateTime and Instant semantics. See this document for details.

Issue Links

• blocks: HIVE-21357 Avro support for TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE
• blocks: HIVE-21360 Avro support for TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE
• links to: Design doc
• links to: Discussion on mailing list
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #525