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Farzana Kader commented on KUDU-1938:
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[~mjacobs] This Jira was logged for legacy applications that interact with
Impala. When they access an Impala table that has STRING field, they
automatically allocate 32KB regardless of storage system. Please let me know if
I should track this Jira on another board.
> Support for VARCHAR type
> ------------------------
>
> Key: KUDU-1938
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KUDU-1938
> Project: Kudu
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: client, tablet
> Reporter: Farzana Kader
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> VARCHAR is currently not supported by Kudu. This is functionality that
> currently exists in Impala. Some client applications convert STRING to 32K
> bytes which causes performance issues so they need the VARCHAR support in
> order to integrate well with Kudu.
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