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[jira] [Created] (IMPALA-15279) Cleanup Type.isStringType() in FE

Csaba Ringhofer created IMPALA-15279:
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             Summary: Cleanup Type.isStringType() in FE
                 Key: IMPALA-15279
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-15279
             Project: IMPALA
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Frontend
            Reporter: Csaba Ringhofer


isStringType() is used with different meanings, mainly in some cases it means "isTextType()", in others "isVarLenType():
Examples:
https://github.infra.cloudera.com/CDH/Impala/blob/a6f415afc510184558963a9956a591be07232411/fe/src/main/java/org/apache/impala/analysis/LikePredicate.java#L123
https://github.infra.cloudera.com/CDH/Impala/blob/a6f415afc510184558963a9956a591be07232411/fe/src/main/java/org/apache/impala/analysis/ComputeStatsStmt.java#L288

this came up when implementing GEOMETRY:
https://gerrit.cloudera.org/#/c/24534/13/fe/src/main/java/org/apache/impala/catalog/Type.java@237



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