[CARBONDATA-1708] Carbon1.3.0 Dictionary creation: By default dictionary is not created for string column

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Invalid
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.0
• Component/s: other
• Labels: Functional
• Environment: 3 Node ant cluster
• Assignee: Vandana Yadav
• Reporter: Ajeet Rai
• Created: 14/Nov/17 11:35
• Updated: 20/Dec/17 11:37
• Resolved: 20/Dec/17 11:37

Description

By default dictionary is not created for string column.

steps:

1: create a table with one column of string data type:
create table check_dict(id int, name string)
2: insert into check_dict select 1,'abc'
3: describe the table to check dictionary column:
desc formatted check_dict;
4: Observe that name column is not DICTIONARY column.

Issue: This is not as per document.
Link: https://carbondata.apache.org/ddl-operation-on-carbondata.html

Expected : Dictionary encoding is enabled by default for all String columns, and disabled for non-String columns