General Usage Guidelines for CREATE TYPE (ARRAY/VARRAY Form) - Teradata Vantage

Teradata® VantageCloud Lake

Deployment
VantageCloud
Edition
Lake
Product
Teradata Vantage
Published
January 2023
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2024-04-03
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Supported ARRAY and VARRAY Data Type Elements

The element types of an ARRAY or VARRAY UDT must be chosen from any of the Teradata data type categories contained in the following list.

All supported predefined data types with the exception of the following types.
  • BLOB
  • CLOB
  • LOB-based UDT
  • Geospatial
  • One-dimensional ARRAY types
  • Multidimensional ARRAY types

Transform Input/Output Strings for ARRAY/VARRAY Types

See ARRAY/VARRAY Data Type Rules and Guidelines for information about the transform input/output strings for ARRAY and VARRAY types.

ARRAY and VARRAY Columns in SELECT Requests

You cannot specify an ARRAY or VARRAY column in the ORDER BY, GROUP BY, or HAVING clauses of a SELECT request.

ARRAY and VARRAY Columns in an Index Definition

You cannot specify an ARRAY or VARRAY column in a primary, secondary, or join index.