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Reuven Lax commented on BEAM-4081:
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agree, however I would recommend being conservative about what we promote to be
a basic type, and err on keeping the Beam-level type set small. e.g. right now
I see no good reason for Beam to distinguish between CHAR and VARCHAR, even
though SQL does need to make this distinction (though maybe we will find a good
reason for Beam to care).
> Review of schema metadata vs schema types
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> Key: BEAM-4081
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-4081
> Project: Beam
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: sdk-java-core
> Reporter: Kenneth Knowles
> Priority: Major
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> The Schema basic types have a place for metadata that can say "this int is
> really millis since epoch". This deserves some careful design review and
> perhaps some of these need to be promoted to basic types.
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