[HADOOP-2869] Deprecate and remove SequenceFile.setCompressionType

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.15.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.16.1
• Assignee: Arun Murthy
• Reporter: Arun Murthy
• Created: 21/Feb/08 20:41
• Updated: 14/Mar/08 18:31
• Resolved: 06/Mar/08 21:53

Description

The right context for compression is either:

a) SequenceFile.createWriter
b) SequenceFileOutputFormat.setCompressionType
c) JobConf.setMapOutputCompressionType

Hence, we need to remove (deprecate for now) SequenceFIle.setCompressionType.