GitHub user sujith71955 opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/21775
[SPARK-24812][SQL] Last Access Time in the table description is not valid ## What changes were proposed in this pull request? Last Access Time will always displayed wrong date Wed Dec 31 15:59:59 PST 1969 when user run DESC FORMATTED table command In hive its displayed as "UNKNOWN" which makes more sense than displaying wrong date. seems to be a limitation as of now even from hive, better we can follow the hive behavior unless the limitation has been resolved from hive. ## How was this patch tested? UT has been added which makes sure that the wrong date "Wed Dec 31 15:59:59 PST 1969 " shall not be added as value for the Last Access property You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/sujith71955/spark master_hive Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/21775.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #21775 ---- commit 502bb924fdfd4a9593154ce72a128ca869c92fbe Author: s71955 <sujithchacko.2010@...> Date: 2018-07-16T07:40:53Z [SPARK-24812][SQL] Last Access Time in the table description is not valid ## What changes were proposed in this pull request? Last Access Time will always displayed wrong date Wed Dec 31 15:59:59 PST 1969 when user run DESC FORMATTED table command In hive its displayed as "UNKNOWN" which makes more sense than displaying wrong date. seems to be a limitation as of now, better we can follow the hive behavior unless the limitation has been resolved from hive. ## How was this patch tested? UT has been added which makes sure that the wrong date "Wed Dec 31 15:59:59 PST 1969 " shall not be added as value for the Last Access property ---- --- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: reviews-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: reviews-h...@spark.apache.org