On 6/24/15, 12:39 PM, "Ryan Blue" <[email protected]> wrote: >The only place it is used is for the Impala INT96 timestamp type. That >happened because we (Cloudera) didn't discuss how to properly store >timestamps with the upstream community. The implementers needed a way to >write the type and know it was the timestamp, and using INT96 for that >purpose seemed like a good idea at the time, I guess.
Spark 1.4.x (recently released) is using INT96 for timestamps as well. -n
