[SPARK-39904] Rename inferDate to preferDate and fix an issue when inferring schema

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.4.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.4.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Assignee: Ivan Sadikov
• Reporter: Ivan Sadikov
• Created: 28/Jul/22 05:24
• Updated: 15/Feb/23 21:30
• Resolved: 03/Aug/22 04:06

Description

Follow-up for https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-39469.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #37327 (sadikovi)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #40043 (gengliangwang)