GitHub user gengliangwang opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/21974
[SPARK-25002][SQL] Avro: revise the output record namespace ## What changes were proposed in this pull request? Currently the output namespace is starting with ".", e.g. `.topLevelRecord` Although it is valid according to Avro spec, we should remove the starting dot in case of failures when the output Avro file is read by other lib: https://github.com/linkedin/goavro/pull/96 ## How was this patch tested? Unit test You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/gengliangwang/spark avro_namespace Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/21974.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #21974 ---- commit 70ceb84910ae5e7ca8575f72935f2fce41c9c3cb Author: Gengliang Wang <gengliang.wang@...> Date: 2018-08-02T16:16:19Z revise avro namespace ---- --- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: reviews-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: reviews-h...@spark.apache.org