Github user joesu commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1737#issuecomment-53976828
Another way is to include max length information in the BinaryType type,
just like the FixedLenByteArray type in this pull request. Thus we can maintain
only one binary data type for the fixed length and the variable length ones.
What do you think about this approach?
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