Should a FIXED type for fixed-length character strings be added to DuckDB?

[ghalimi]

Apache Iceberg supports the fixed(L) type for a fixed-length character string of length L. Should a similar type be added to DuckDB? Without it, values of this type are cast to the VARCHAR type, which encoding might lead to performance degradation and | or memory waste.

Link: Types

[ghalimi]

This is probably not urgent.

[alexey-milovidov]

Fixed-size string type, and more importantly, a binary data type, makes sense for hashes.
ClickHouse does it with the FixedString data type, and it is used for a wide range of applications.

[ghalimi]

Binary datatype of fixed size?

[alexey-milovidov]

Yes.

[ghalimi]

Got it. Thanks!