Loading a column of the VARBYTE data type - Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift will no longer support the creation of new Python UDFs starting November 1, 2025. If you would like to use Python UDFs, create the UDFs prior to that date. Existing Python UDFs will continue to function as normal. For more information, see the blog post .

Loading a column of the VARBYTE data type

You can load data from a file in CSV, Parquet, and ORC format. For CSV, the data is loaded from a file in hexadecimal representation of the VARBYTE data. You can't load VARBYTE data with the FIXEDWIDTH option. The ADDQUOTES or REMOVEQUOTES option of COPY is not supported. A VARBYTE column can't be used as a partition column.