Loading a column of the VARBYTE data type - Amazon Redshift
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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.