+1 on bringing it back. causing all sorts of problems on my end that was not obvious without digging in
I was having problems building spark, as well, with the --hive-thriftserver flag. also thought I was doing something wrong on my end. > On Jun 13, 2016, at 9:11 PM, Reynold Xin <r...@databricks.com> wrote: > > Thanks for the email. Things like this (and bugs) are exactly the reason the > preview releases exist. It seems like enough people have run into problem > with this one that maybe we should just bring it back for backward > compatibility. > >> On Monday, June 13, 2016, Egor Pahomov <pahomov.e...@gmail.com> wrote: >> In May due to the SPARK-15095 binary mode was "removed" (code is there, but >> you can not turn it on) from Spark-2.0. In 1.6.1 binary was default and in >> 2.0.0-preview it was removed. It's really annoying: >> I can not use Tableau+Spark anymore >> I need to change connection URL in SQL client for every analyst in my >> organization. And with Squirrel I experiencing problems with that. >> We have parts of infrastructure, which connected to data infrastructure >> though ThriftServer. And of course format was binary. >> I've created a ticket to get binary >> back(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-15934), but that's not the >> point. I've experienced this problem a month ago, but haven't done anything >> about it, because I believed, that I'm stupid and doing something wrong. But >> documentation was release recently and it contained no information about >> this new thing and it made me digging. >> >> Most of what I describe is just annoying, but Tableau+Spark new >> incompatibility I believe is big deal. Maybe I'm wrong and there are ways to >> make things work, it's just I wouldn't expect move to 2.0.0 to be so time >> consuming. >> >> My point: Do we have any guidelines regarding doing such radical things? >> >> -- >> Sincerely yours >> Egor Pakhomov
