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ASF GitHub Bot commented on ORC-202:
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Github user dain commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/orc/pull/132#discussion_r122575288
--- Diff: proto/orc_proto.proto ---
@@ -221,15 +227,32 @@ message PostScript {
// [0, 12] = Hive 0.12
repeated uint32 version = 4 [packed = true];
optional uint64 metadataLength = 5;
- // Version of the writer:
- // 0 (or missing) = original
- // 1 = HIVE-8732 fixed
- // 2 = HIVE-4243 fixed
- // 3 = HIVE-12055 fixed
- // 4 = HIVE-13083 fixed
- // 5 = ORC-101 fixed
- // 6 = ORC-135 fixed
+
+ // The version of the writer that wrote the file. This number is
+ // updated when we make fixes or large changes to the writer so that
+ // readers can detect whether a given bug is present in the data.
+ //
+ // These numbers are assigned from 6 per a writer so that readers that
+ // predate ORC-202 treat the new writers correctly.
--- End diff --
maybe note that writer version is required for everything except for the
original version of ORC_JAVA.
> Add enum that encodes which writer wrote a file
> -----------------------------------------------
>
> Key: ORC-202
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ORC-202
> Project: ORC
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Owen O'Malley
> Assignee: Owen O'Malley
>
> Add a protobuf enum value in the footer that can encode which writer wrote
> the file:
> * ORC Java Writer
> * ORC C++ Writer
> * Presto Writer
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