[IMPALA-7190] Remove unsupported format write support

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: Impala 2.13.0, Impala 3.1.0
• Component/s: Backend
• Target Version: Product Backlog
• Epic Color: ghx-label-5
• Assignee: Bikramjeet Vig
• Reporter: Tim Armstrong
• Created: 20/Jun/18 17:43
• Updated: 07/Mar/19 03:11
• Resolved: 03/Jul/18 21:56

Description

Let's remove the formats gated by ALLOW_UNSUPPORTED_FORMATS since progress stalled a long time ago. It sounds like there's a consensus on the mailing list to remove the code:

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/749bef4914350ae0756bc88961db2dd39901a649a9cef6949eda5870@%3Cdev.impala.apache.org%3E

for 2.x:

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5e30d490d6b9518a3afd3365a3d2eac737d24227497dcc052532175f@%3Cdev.impala.apache.org%3E

Sub-Tasks

• Impala 3.1 Doc: Remove unsupported format write support: Closed