Github user kumarvishal09 commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/carbondata/pull/2379#discussion_r196437393
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core/src/main/java/org/apache/carbondata/core/constants/CarbonCommonConstants.java
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@@ -1601,6 +1602,8 @@
// As Short data type is used for storing the length of a column during
data processing hence
// the maximum characters that can be supported should be less than
Short max value
public static final int MAX_CHARS_PER_COLUMN_DEFAULT = 32000;
+ // todo: use infinity first, will switch later
+ public static final int MAX_CHARS_PER_COLUMN_INFINITY = -1;
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why this is -1?? as per previous discussion we can support max 67104 chars
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