[SPARK-18973] Remove SortPartitions and RedistributeData

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.1, 2.2.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Assignee: Reynold Xin
• Reporter: Reynold Xin
• Created: 22/Dec/16 04:20
• Updated: 22/Dec/16 18:37
• Resolved: 22/Dec/16 18:37

Description

SortPartitions and RedistributeData logical operators are not actually used and can be removed. Note that we do have a Sort operator (with global flag false) that subsumed SortPartitions.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #16381 (rxin)