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[jira] [Commented] (IMPALA-7291) [DOCS] Document recommendation to use VARCHAR or STRING instead of CHAR(N)

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-7291?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=16872456#comment-16872456 ] 

ASF subversion and git services commented on IMPALA-7291:
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Commit 3d6a8959f8077a53194dd5a7b9e339b09046fa49 in impala's branch refs/heads/2.x from Alex Rodoni
[ https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=impala.git;h=3d6a895 ]

IMPALA-7291: [DOCS] Note about no codegen support for CHAR

Also, cleaned up confusing examples.

Change-Id: Id89dcf44e31f1bc56d888527585b3ec90229981a
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/11022
Reviewed-by: Impala Public Jenkins <im...@cloudera.com>
Tested-by: Impala Public Jenkins <im...@cloudera.com>


> [DOCS] Document recommendation to use VARCHAR or STRING instead of CHAR(N)
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>
>                 Key: IMPALA-7291
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-7291
>             Project: IMPALA
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Docs
>    Affects Versions: Impala 2.12.0
>            Reporter: Balazs Jeszenszky
>            Assignee: Alex Rodoni
>            Priority: Major
>             Fix For: Impala 3.1.0
>
>
> CHAR(N) currently does not have codegen support. For that reason, we should recommend customers to use VARCHAR or STRING instead - the gain of codegen outweighs the benefits of fixed width CHARs.



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