Github user adrian-wang commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/3732#issuecomment-69889826 We were using java.sql.Date originally, but it did not conform with hive... with different ordering definition(Though we can modify what we do when comparing, it would result in a worse performance), and also store it as an Int is helpful to save storage.
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