[SPARK-26932] Add a warning for Hive 2.1.1 ORC reader issue

• Type: Documentation
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.0, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.4.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.4.1, 3.0.0
• Component/s: Documentation
• Assignee: Bo Hai
• Reporter: Bo Hai
• Created: 19/Feb/19 15:12
• Updated: 12/Dec/22 18:11
• Resolved: 05/Mar/19 20:12

Description

As of Spark 2.3 and Hive 2.3, both supports using apache/orc as orc writer and reader. In older version of Hive, orc reader(isn't forward-compitaient) implemented by its own.

So Hive 2.2 and older can not read orc table created by spark 2.3 and newer which using apache/orc instead of Hive orc.

I think we should add these information into Spark2.4 orc configuration file : https://spark.apache.org/docs/2.4.0/sql-data-sources-orc.html

Issue Links

• relates to: HIVE-16683 ORC WriterVersion gets ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException on newer ORC files
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #23944