In May due to the SPARK-15095 binary mode was "removed" (code is there, but you can not turn it on) from Spark-2.0. In 1.6.1 binary was default and in 2.0.0-preview it was removed. It's really annoying:
- I can not use Tableau+Spark anymore - I need to change connection URL in SQL client for every analyst in my organization. And with Squirrel I experiencing problems with that. - We have parts of infrastructure, which connected to data infrastructure though ThriftServer. And of course format was binary. I've created a ticket to get binary back( https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-15934), but that's not the point. I've experienced this problem a month ago, but haven't done anything about it, because I believed, that I'm stupid and doing something wrong. But documentation was release recently and it contained no information about this new thing and it made me digging. Most of what I describe is just annoying, but Tableau+Spark new incompatibility I believe is big deal. Maybe I'm wrong and there are ways to make things work, it's just I wouldn't expect move to 2.0.0 to be so time consuming. My point: Do we have any guidelines regarding doing such radical things? -- *Sincerely yoursEgor Pakhomov*
