Github user ueshin commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1586#issuecomment-50858955
Oops, I had forgotten that Hive's `Length` can handle binary type.
It would be better to use `Length` instead of `CharLength` and make it
handle binary type.
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