RussellSpitzer commented on PR #8808: URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/8808#issuecomment-1828351888
> > Anyway, the conversion is based on the fact that the user defines the column as string and wants to use it as a string. If you think there is an inappropriate scenario, could you give an example? User sets the column as a string but the data is not UTF-8 encoded. Or worse, some files do have UTF-8 encoded binary and others do not. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@iceberg.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@iceberg.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@iceberg.apache.org