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<p>Builder API for specifying or altering a column within a table schema.
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<p><code>#include &lt;<a class="el" href="schema_8h_source.html">schema.h</a>&gt;</code></p>
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<tr><td colspan="2"><div class="groupText"><p>Set the column to be the primary key of the table.</p>
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<tr><td colspan="2"><div class="groupText"><p>Remove the default value for the column.</p>
<p>Without a default, clients must always specify a value for the column when inserting data.</p>
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<div class="textblock"><p>Builder API for specifying or altering a column within a table schema. </p>
<p>An object of this type cannot be constructed directly, but rather is returned from <a class="el" href="classkudu_1_1client_1_1KuduSchemaBuilder.html#a0fdf28d49cc05ba4f3182f7398ddf600">KuduSchemaBuilder::AddColumn()</a> to specify a column within a Schema.</p>
<dl class="todo"><dt><b><a class="el" href="todo.html#_todo000009">Todo:</a></b></dt><dd>KUDU-861: this API will also be used for an improved AlterTable API. </dd></dl>
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<p>Set the target block size for the column.</p>
<p>This is the number of bytes of user data packed per block on disk, and represents the unit of IO when reading the column. Larger values may improve scan performance, particularly on spinning media. Smaller values may improve random access performance, particularly for workloads that have high cache hit rates or operate on fast storage such as SSD.</p>
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<dl class="todo"><dt><b><a class="el" href="todo.html#_todo000013">Todo:</a></b></dt><dd>KUDU-1107: move above info to docs</dd></dl>
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<p>Set the preferred compression type for the column.</p>
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<p>Set the default value for the column.</p>
<p>When adding a new column to a table, this default value will be used to fill the new column in all existing rows. The default value will also be used when inserting a new row with no value for the column.</p>
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<p>Set the preferred encoding for the column.</p>
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<p>Set the column to be not nullable.</p>
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<p>Set the column to be nullable (the default).</p>
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<p>Rename the column.</p>
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<p>Set the data type of the column.</p>
<dl class="section note"><dt>Note</dt><dd>Column data types may not be changed once a table is created.</dd></dl>
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<tr><td class="paramdir">[in]</td><td class="paramname">type</td><td>The data type to set. </td></tr>
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<dl class="section return"><dt>Returns</dt><dd>Pointer to the modified object. </dd></dl>
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<hr/>The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:<ul>
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