srowen commented on pull request #30981: URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/30981#issuecomment-755868569
I dunno. I kind of imagine the use case for legacy databases, where some strings may be (unfortunately) treated as bytes. But that won't be true in Spark. It also implies we need binary-string-like versions of many operators, not just this one, and I don't think that API surface is worth it. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
