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Jason Dere commented on HIVE-5191:
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Standard only says that it is implementation defined:
35) Subclause 6.1, “<data type>”:
i) The maximum lengths for character string types and binary string types are
implementation-defined.
The max varchar length was set based on MySQL's max length (32K), thought it
made sense to do the same for char. We can make the char limit a bit bigger,
but if users want very large string values then they probably should be using
string columns. Any preferences on size?
> Add char data type
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> Key: HIVE-5191
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-5191
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Types
> Reporter: Jason Dere
> Assignee: Jason Dere
> Attachments: HIVE-5191.1.patch, HIVE-5191.2.patch, HIVE-5191.3.patch
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> Separate task for char type, since HIVE-4844 only adds varchar
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