Github user mengxr commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1581#issuecomment-50096692 If we need a complex type in the future, we can add a separate SerDe for it. Since double only has 8 byte, adding the magic byte increases the storage by 12.5%.
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