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Marta Paes Moreira commented on FLINK-19869:
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I get multiple questions about how to handle UUIDs as well as other Postgres
common types like ENUM. This and FLINK-18758 seem critical to ensure a good
experience with Postgres CDC.
> Support java.util.UUID as RAW type in PostgresCatalog and handle it in
> PostgresRowConverter
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> Key: FLINK-19869
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-19869
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Connectors / JDBC
> Affects Versions: 1.11.2
> Reporter: Jingwei Zhang
> Priority: Minor
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> Problem:
> UUID is not a SQL standard type. But it is supported by Postgres as an
> internal type which postgres client will help to convert to java.util.UUID
> when queried. However, it seems flink doesn't support it as a sql extension
> in PostgresCatalog. There is no uuid serializer provided for it, either. So
> if I want to filter a result set and put the filter result back to a table
> with same schema with uuid column type in it. I will have problem.
> Proposal:
> Handle UUID in postgres as a SQL extension. Use the DataTypes.RAW to wrap its
> original class info and its serializer so as to expose it as a RAW
> JDBCType(only in postgres) in PostgresCatalog.
> And meanwhile, for PostgresRowConverter, we could use BinaryRawValueData to
> handle those SQL extension for byte serialization/deserialization.
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