+1, especially if this helps reducing your work on fixing the recent broken/flaky tests.
Thanks for your hard working on this wonderful product! -- Quanlong At 2018-06-20 04:12:38, "Jim Apple" <jbap...@cloudera.com.INVALID> wrote: >I'm convinced. This is enough deprecation notice for me. > >On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 8:25 AM, Tim Armstrong ><tarmstr...@cloudera.com.invalid> wrote: >> I don't think we need to bump a major version to remove something that we >> never claimed to support though. The docs are pretty clear: >> >> https://impala.apache.org/docs/build/html/topics/impala_allow_unsupported_formats.html >> >> "An obsolete query option from early work on support for file formats. Do >> not use. Might be removed in the future." >> >> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 10:16 PM, Jim Apple <jbap...@cloudera.com.invalid> >> wrote: >> >>> As for the time zone case, I’d like to be careful about versioning. If we >>> remove Avro, that seems like a breaking changedeserving of a major version >>> bump. >>> >>> It might be worth taking a survey wider than dev@. User@ or the customers >>> of Impala packagers might be good places to start. >>> >>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 5:10 PM Tim Armstrong >>> <tarmstr...@cloudera.com.invalid> wrote: >>> >>> > For a few years now we've had write support for Sequence, Avro and >>> > compressed text hidden behind a query option. We haven't really made any >>> > progress on turning it into a supported feature, so I'm wondering if we >>> > should remove the code and save some overhead of building, testing and >>> code >>> > maintenance. >>> > >>> > I know I've found it useful once or twice to generate test data but I >>> don't >>> > think this is enough to justify maintaining it. >>> > >>> > It seems like we should get it out of this in-between state - either >>> delete >>> > the code or get it to the point where it's supported and tested. If we >>> > delete it, it's always possible for someone to resurrect it later. >>> > >>> > What do people think? >>> > >>> > - Tim >>> > >>>
