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Kaxil Naik commented on AIRFLOW-2169:
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The issue regarding "Encoding binary data with base64 before importing to
BigQuery"
resolved by
[https://github.com/apache/incubator-airflow/pull/3221|https://github.com/apache/incubator-airflow/pull/3221]
> Fail to discern between VARBINARY and VARCHAR in MySQL
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> Key: AIRFLOW-2169
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRFLOW-2169
> Project: Apache Airflow
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: db, operators
> Reporter: Hongyi Wang
> Assignee: Hongyi Wang
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 1.10.0
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> Current MySqlToGoogleCloudStorageOperator has difficulty to discern between
> VARBINARY and VARCHAR in MySQL (and other similar fields–CHAR/BINARY, etc).
> While "binary-related" MySQL data types, like VARBINARY, should be mapped to
> "BYTES" in Google Cloud Storage, rather than "STRING".
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