I believe If you use spark-shell or spark-submit, then it will pick up the conf from spark-defaults.conf, If you are running independent application then you can set all those confs while creating the SparkContext.
Thanks Best Regards On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Chirag Aggarwal <chirag.aggar...@guavus.com > wrote: > Hi, > > It seems that spark-defaults.conf is not read by spark-sql. Is it used > only by spark-shell? > > Thanks, > Chirag >