Github user mateiz commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/455#issuecomment-45420441
(Also, once Spark SQL supports a given interface, or even before, we can
simply leave out patches that add new Converters. There's no need to provide a
huge collection of them, in fact I'd provide none beyond the default one. The
examples here are meant to show how to write your own converter.)
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