Amazon Redshift announces support for VARBYTE 16MB data type
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The article announces that Amazon Redshift has extended the maximum size of the VARBYTE data type from 1,024,000 bytes to 16,777,216 bytes (16MB).
Specifically, the article covers:
- VARBYTE is a variable size data type for storing and representing variable-length binary strings
- With this change, Amazon Redshift now supports all existing VARBYTE functionality with 16MB VARBYTE values
- The VARBYTE data type can now ingest data larger than 1,024,000 bytes from Parquet, CSV, and text file formats
- The default size for a VARBYTE(n) column (if n is not specified) remains 64,000 bytes
- VARBYTE 16MB support is available in all commercial AWS Regions
- More information can be found in the Amazon Redshift documentation
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