marmbrus commented on issue #23811: [SPARK-26902][SQL] Support 
java.time.Instant as an external type of TimestampType
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/23811#issuecomment-580443958
 
 
   As a somewhat heavy user of Datasets I'm actually +1 on letting users get 
nicer implementations of Timestamp out of Spark. The flag is not the most 
elegant way to expose this, but in some cases I think its our only choice (i.e. 
when Spark is returning `GenericRow`s without any other hint from the users 
about the type they want)
   
   Apologies, if I misread the PR, but couldn't we seamlessly support both 
types in many cases without the flag? (i.e. when reflection can tell us which 
type the user is expecting).
   
   That said, I'm -1 on making this the default anytime soon. Sounds like it 
will break a lot of programs.

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