[SPARK-6776] Implement backwards-compatibility rules in Catalyst converters (which convert Parquet record to rows)

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.2, 1.1.1, 1.2.1, 1.3.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Target Version/s: 1.5.0
• Assignee: Cheng Lian
• Reporter: Cheng Lian
• Created: 08/Apr/15 12:49
• Updated: 17/Nov/15 18:22
• Resolved: 08/Jul/15 22:52

Description

Spark SQL should also be able to read Parquet complex types represented in several commonly used non-standard way. For example, legacy files written by parquet-avro, parquet-thrift, and parquet-hive. We may just follow the pattern used in AvroIndexedRecordConverter.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #5422 (liancheng)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #7231 (liancheng)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #7472 (liancheng)