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Rajendra Nigram commented on HIVE-4844:
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Hi,
I have a question regarding Hive Varchar. I have a few million rows of records
in a column.
# How I can find out what is the maximum byte used in a row of a column. So
that I can optimally allocate length of Varchar column?
> Add varchar data type
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>
> Key: HIVE-4844
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-4844
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Types
> Reporter: Jason Dere
> Assignee: Jason Dere
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 0.12.0
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> Attachments: HIVE-4844.1.patch.hack, HIVE-4844.10.patch,
> HIVE-4844.11.patch, HIVE-4844.12.patch, HIVE-4844.13.patch,
> HIVE-4844.14.patch, HIVE-4844.15.patch, HIVE-4844.16.patch,
> HIVE-4844.17.patch, HIVE-4844.18.patch, HIVE-4844.19.patch,
> HIVE-4844.2.patch, HIVE-4844.3.patch, HIVE-4844.4.patch, HIVE-4844.5.patch,
> HIVE-4844.6.patch, HIVE-4844.7.patch, HIVE-4844.8.patch, HIVE-4844.9.patch,
> HIVE-4844.D12699.1.patch, HIVE-4844.D12891.1.patch, HIVE-4844.v12.1.patch,
> screenshot.png
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> Add new varchar data types which have support for more SQL-compliant
> behavior, such as SQL string comparison semantics, max length, etc.
> Char type will be added as another task.
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