Github user yhuai commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/8800#issuecomment-141257048 The impact of saving the metadata in a hive compatible way or not will appear when a user want to read the data. I am not sure they can remember how the metadata is stored. It is also very possible that the data producer and consumer are different persons/different teams.
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