[GitHub] [calcite] julianhyde commented on a diff in pull request #2819: [CALCITE-5159] Postgres dialect should support implicit cast from string literal to array literal

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julianhyde commented on code in PR #2819:
URL: https://github.com/apache/calcite/pull/2819#discussion_r1000994647


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core/src/main/java/org/apache/calcite/sql/validate/implicit/AbstractTypeCoercion.java:
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@@ -721,4 +738,31 @@ boolean canImplicitTypeCast(List<RelDataType> types, List<SqlTypeFamily> familie
     }
     return null;
   }
+
+  /**
+   * Coerce STRING type to ARRAY type.
+   */
+  protected Boolean coerceStringToArray(
+      SqlCall call,
+      SqlNode operand,
+      int index,
+      RelDataType fromType,
+      RelDataType targetType) {
+    if (validator.config().conformance().allowCoercionStringToArray()
+        && SqlTypeUtil.isString(fromType)
+        && SqlTypeUtil.isArray(targetType)
+        && operand instanceof SqlCharStringLiteral
+    ) {
+      try {
+        SqlNode arrayValue = SqlParserUtil.parseArrayLiteral(
+            ((SqlCharStringLiteral) operand).getValueAs(String.class));
+        call.setOperand(index, arrayValue);
+        updateInferredType(arrayValue, targetType);
+      } catch (Throwable e) {
+        return false;

Review Comment:
   Yes, `catch Error` is just as bad as `catch Throwable`.
   
   Is it possible for `parseArrayLiteral` to declare a short list of exceptions that it may throw? Some of them will be user errors (i.e. the string is not valid format); internal errors (e.g. `NullPointerException`, `ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException`) should be rethrown, not become `return false`.



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