Hi all,
While discussing PARQUET-2485 a question was raised about the STRING
annotation [1]. The current wording in the specification is "|STRING|
may only be used to annotate the binary primitive type"; PARQUET-2485
would change that to "|STRING| may only be used to annotate the
|BYTE_ARRAY| primitive type". The question is, can FIXED_LEN_BYTE_ARRAY
also be annotated with STRING? My instinct says "No", but others may
have a different interpretation.
Are there any strong opinions in the community? Are there any
implementations that allow fixed length strings?
Thanks,
Ed
[1] https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/pull/251#discussion_r1635669939
