Github user marmbrus commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/9658#issuecomment-157106033
We've added support for reading these types as strings, but we can't round
trip data without losing the annotation which might be kind of confusing for
users. Perhaps we should also be reading/writing this info to/from the
metadata.
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