Possible truncation of variable length string
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:13 am
All,
I have a simple job which will generate the header and current date.
The job design is:
Row Generator --> Tranformer --> Export Column --> SeqFile
Header1 varchar(20)
Header2 varchar(20)
'UHDR' = Header1
DateToString(currentdate(),"%yyyy%ddd") = Header2
export_header:
exported_col varchar(255)
header1 & header2 will be stored in 'exported_col' as below
UHDR|2011101
when i run the job, i am getting the below error message.
export_header: When checking operator: When binding output interface field "exported_col" to field "exported_col": Implicit conversion from source type "string" to result type "string[max=255]": Possible truncation of variable length string.
why? I don't understand this error message.
I have a simple job which will generate the header and current date.
The job design is:
Row Generator --> Tranformer --> Export Column --> SeqFile
Header1 varchar(20)
Header2 varchar(20)
'UHDR' = Header1
DateToString(currentdate(),"%yyyy%ddd") = Header2
export_header:
exported_col varchar(255)
header1 & header2 will be stored in 'exported_col' as below
UHDR|2011101
when i run the job, i am getting the below error message.
export_header: When checking operator: When binding output interface field "exported_col" to field "exported_col": Implicit conversion from source type "string" to result type "string[max=255]": Possible truncation of variable length string.
why? I don't understand this error message.