Github user JamesRTaylor commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/phoenix/pull/275#discussion_r145232581
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phoenix-core/src/main/java/org/apache/phoenix/jdbc/PhoenixConnection.java ---
@@ -336,6 +338,7 @@ public ReadOnlyProps getProps() {
formatters.put(PUnsignedTimestamp.INSTANCE, timestampFormat);
formatters.put(PDecimal.INSTANCE,
FunctionArgumentType.NUMERIC.getFormatter(numberPattern));
+ formatters.put(PVarbinary.INSTANCE, VarBinaryFormatter.INSTANCE);
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+1. Nice idea!
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