[SPARK-17229][SQL] PostgresDialect shouldn't widen float and short types during reads #14796
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What changes were proposed in this pull request?
When reading float4 and smallint columns from PostgreSQL, Spark's
PostgresDialectwidens these types to Decimal and Integer rather than using the narrower Float and Short types. According to https://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.1/static/datatype.html#DATATYPE-TABLE, Postgres maps thesmallinttype to a signed two-byte integer and thereal/float4types to single precision floating point numbers.This patch fixes this by adding more special-cases to
getCatalystType, similar to what was done for the Derby JDBC dialect. I also fixed a similar problem in the write path which causes Spark to create integer columns in Postgres for what should have been ShortType columns.How was this patch tested?
New test cases in
PostgresIntegrationSuite(which I ran manually because Jenkins can't run it right now).