rdblue commented on code in PR #4865:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/4865#discussion_r893006212
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docs/flink/flink-getting-started.md:
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@@ -547,6 +547,70 @@ RewriteDataFilesActionResult result =
Actions.forTable(table)
For more doc about options of the rewrite files action, please see
[RewriteDataFilesAction](../../../javadoc/{{% icebergVersion
%}}/org/apache/iceberg/flink/actions/RewriteDataFilesAction.html)
+## Type conversion
+
+Iceberg's integration for Flink automatically converts between Flink and
Iceberg types. When writing to a table with types that are not supported by
Flink, like UUID, Iceberg will accept and convert values from the Flink type.
+
+### Flink to Iceberg
+
+Flink types are converted to Iceberg types according to the following table:
+
+| Flink | Iceberg | Notes |
+|----------------- |----------------------------|---------------|
+| boolean | boolean | |
+| tinyint | integer | |
+| smallint | integer | |
+| integer | integer | |
+| bigint | long | |
+| float | float | |
+| double | double | |
+| char | string | |
+| varchar | string | |
+| string | string | |
+| binary | binary | |
+| varbinary | fixed | |
+| decimal | decimal | |
+| date | date | |
+| time | time | |
+| timestamp | timestamp without timezone | |
+| timestamp_ltz | timestamp with timezone | |
+| array | list | |
+| map | map | |
+| multiset | map | |
+| row | struct | |
+| raw | | Not supported |
+| interval | | Not supported |
+| structured | | Not supported |
+| timestamp with zone | | Not supported |
+| distinct | | Not supported |
+| null | | Not supported |
+| symbol | | Not supported |
+| logical | | Not supported |
+
+### Iceberg to Flink
+
+Iceberg types are converted to Flink types according to the following table:
+
+| Iceberg | Flink | Notes
|
+|----------------------------|---------------|--------------------------------------------------|
+| boolean | boolean |
|
+| struct | row |
|
+| list | array |
|
+| map | map |
|
+| integer | integer |
|
+| long | bigint |
|
+| float | float |
|
+| double | double |
|
+| date | date |
|
+| time | time |
|
+| timestamp without timezone | timestamp | precision is fixed at 6
|
+| timestamp with timezone | timestamp_ltz | precision is fixed at 6
|
+| string | varchar | length is fixed at
2<sup>31</sup>-1 |
+| uuid | binary | length is fixed at 16
|
+| fixed | binary |
|
+| binary | varbinary | width is fixed at
2<sup>31</sup>-1 |
Review Comment:
`varbinary(2147483647)`?
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