[GitHub] [arrow-datafusion] jhorstmann commented on issue #7344: Internal error: The "character_length" function can only accept strings

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jhorstmann commented on issue #7344:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/issues/7344#issuecomment-1689473071

   I'm wondering if an implicit cast is really the right solution here. Maybe a better solution would be to declare the schema / override the type in the `CREATE TABLE` statement.
   
   Some other databases also have `CHAR_LENGTH` return the number of bytes on binary inputs: [snowflake LENGTH function](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/sql-reference/functions/length), [Databricks CHARACTER_LENGTH](https://docs.databricks.com/en/sql/language-manual/functions/character_length.html)


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