[SPARK-9424] Document recent Parquet changes in Spark 1.5

• Type: Documentation
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.5.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Target Version/s: 1.5.0
• Sprint: Spark 1.5 doc/QA sprint
• Assignee: Cheng Lian
• Reporter: Cheng Lian
• Created: 28/Jul/15 23:35
• Updated: 11/Sep/15 14:14
• Resolved: 11/Sep/15 14:14

Description

Specifically, the following changes need to be documented/explained:

• Metadata discovery related SQL option(s) and data source option(s)
• Large decimal precision support

Issue Links

• is related to: SPARK-10350 Fix SQL Programming Guide
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #8467 (liancheng)