Github user huor commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/incubator-hawq/pull/1384#discussion_r208436174 --- Diff: src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c --- @@ -1210,6 +1507,16 @@ DefineExternalRelation(CreateExternalStmt *createExtStmt) else if (IsA(dencoding->arg, String)) { encoding_name = strVal(dencoding->arg); + + /* custom format */ + if (!fmttype_is_text(formattype) && !fmttype_is_csv(formattype) && --- End diff -- There should be no hard coded format name in pluggable storage framework
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