[SPARK-1540] Investigate whether we should require keys in PairRDD to be Comparable

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.0
• Assignee: Matei Alexandru Zaharia
• Reporter: Matei Alexandru Zaharia
• Created: 19/Apr/14 22:32
• Updated: 24/Apr/14 07:31
• Resolved: 24/Apr/14 07:30

Description

This is kind of a bigger change, but it would make it easier to do sort-based versions of external operations later. We might also get away without it. Note that sortByKey() already does require an Ordering or Comparables.