Support timestamp in Avro

[#1]

Avro has logical type timestamp and hive supports it since this patch https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-8131.

However i cant see this patch applied to CDH 5.8.0 build. What is the reason not to include this patch in cloudera builds of hive?

Thanks for your answer.

[#2]

UP

Can someone from Cloudera answer?

[#3]

Impala currently does not support Timestamp in AVRO format, please refer to Impala upstream JIRA: IMPALA-1871. Although the upstream Hive does support Timestamp in AVRO via JIRA: HIVE-8131, in order to keep the compatibility between Hive and Impala, we decided to remove this feature from Hive until Impala supports such functionality.