Thanks for pointing to the original thread. I think because of the language in the docs "An obsolete query option from early work on support for file formats. Do not use. Might be removed in the future", it's OK to remove it even in the 2.x line.
On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 10:58 PM Quanlong Huang <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Branch 2.x is moving forward and now the next patch to pick is > 30e82c63ecdd56ded10fed931d95ab6d994b9244 ( > http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/10823) > It's about removing the query option ALLOW_UNSUPPORTED_FORMATS and some > relative codes that were not well tested. > > We had a consensus to remove it in Impala-3.1 per the discussion: > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/749bef4914350ae0756bc88961db2dd39901a649a9cef6949eda5870@%3Cdev.impala.apache.org%3E > > However, since we haven't removed any query options in 2.x yet, should we > consider keeping it for compatibility? Please share your thoughts. > > Thanks, > Quanlong
