discussion: apply generated column to kafka header

[lmatz]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

when I create kafka source and use kafka header as column its value is getting converted into hex
is it possible to keep as it is like string

when I create kafka source and use header or key it is in bytea format so everytime i need to use that column I have encode it

It can reuse the generated-column-like feature to make it a new encoded column: https://docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/query-syntax-generated-columns/

https://risingwave-community.slack.com/archives/C02T3F7UYM6/p1719766273688519

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