[SQL] Decrease partitions when testing

Author: Michael Armbrust <michael@databricks.com>

Closes #2164 from marmbrus/shufflePartitions and squashes the following commits:

0da1e8c [Michael Armbrust] test hax
ef2d985 [Michael Armbrust] more test hacks.
2dabae3 [Michael Armbrust] more test fixes
0bdbf21 [Michael Armbrust] Make parquet tests less order dependent
b42eeab [Michael Armbrust] increase test parallelism
80453d5 [Michael Armbrust] Decrease partitions when testing

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/test/TestSQLContext.scala b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/test/TestSQLContext.scala
index f2389f8f05..265b67737c 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/test/TestSQLContext.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/test/TestSQLContext.scala
@@ -18,8 +18,13 @@
 package org.apache.spark.sql.test
 
 import org.apache.spark.{SparkConf, SparkContext}
-import org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext
+import org.apache.spark.sql.{SQLConf, SQLContext}
 
 /** A SQLContext that can be used for local testing. */
 object TestSQLContext
-  extends SQLContext(new SparkContext("local", "TestSQLContext", new SparkConf()))
+  extends SQLContext(new SparkContext("local[2]", "TestSQLContext", new SparkConf())) {
+
+  /** Fewer partitions to speed up testing. */
+  override private[spark] def numShufflePartitions: Int =
+    getConf(SQLConf.SHUFFLE_PARTITIONS, "5").toInt
+}