[ORC-644] nested struct evolution does not respect to orc.force.positional.evolution

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.5.10, 1.6.3, 1.7.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.11, 1.6.4, 1.7.0
• Component/s: Java
• Assignee: Arvin Zheng
• Reporter: Arvin Zheng
• Created: 02/Jul/20 23:01
• Updated: 21/Sep/21 20:44
• Resolved: 26/Jul/21 05:26

Description

I noticed that even when orc.force.positional.evolution is set to true, the nested Struct evolution is still Hive field name based, which caused some of our queries to return incorrect values for fields inside a nested Struct since our Hive column name does not match to ORC column name. 

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #522
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #522