[jira] [Commented] (SPARK-22771) SQL concat for binary

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Apache Spark commented on SPARK-22771:
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User 'maropu' has created a pull request for this issue:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/20149

> SQL concat for binary 
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>                 Key: SPARK-22771
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-22771
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: SQL
>    Affects Versions: 2.2.1
>            Reporter: Fernando Pereira
>            Assignee: Takeshi Yamamuro
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 2.3.0
>
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> spark.sql {{concat}}  function automatically casts arguments to StringType and returns a String.
> This might be the behavior of traditional databases, however in Spark there's Binary as a standard type, and concat'ing binary seems reasonable if it returns another binary sequence.
> Taking the example of, e.g. Python where both {{bytes}} and {{unicode}} represent text, by concat'ing both we end up with the same type as the arguments, and in case they are intermixed (str + unicode) the most generic type is returned (unicode).
> Following the same principle, I believe that when concat'ing binary it would make sense to return a binary. 
> In terms of Spark behavior, it would affect only the case when all arguments are binary. All other cases should remain unchanged.



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