Github user paul-rogers commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/819#discussion_r113605192
--- Diff: common/src/main/java/org/apache/drill/common/types/Types.java ---
@@ -27,10 +27,14 @@
import org.apache.drill.common.types.TypeProtos.MinorType;
import com.google.protobuf.TextFormat;
+import org.apache.drill.common.util.CoreDecimalUtility;
public class Types {
static final org.slf4j.Logger logger =
org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(Types.class);
+ public static final int MAX_VARCHAR_LENGTH = 65536;
--- End diff --
65535? Largest that will fit in 16 bits?
Actually, why is this the limit? Is there any technical reason we can't
handle, say, 1 MB strings?
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