[jira] [Commented] (CALCITE-3081) Literal NULL should be generated in SqlDialect

["Danny Chan (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Danny Chan commented on CALCITE-3081:
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This question kind of belongs to the scope of implicit type coercion CALCITE-2302, because Calcite is type strong(strict), so with a literal NULL we can not infer which type the literal is(NULL is not a type in Calcite now).

> Literal NULL should be generated in SqlDialect
> ----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CALCITE-3081
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-3081
>             Project: Calcite
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 1.19.0
>            Reporter: Feng Zhu
>            Priority: Minor
>
> In Calcite, this simple query will throw exception during validation, even it is ok in many databases.
> {code:java}
> Query:
> final String query = "select NULL as col "
>     + "from \"foodmart\".\"product\"";
> Exception
> org.apache.calcite.tools.ValidationException: org.apache.calcite.runtime.CalciteContextException: From line 1, column 8 to line 1, column 11: Illegal use of 'NULL'
> {code}
> The right way to use 'NULL' in Calcite is:
> {code:java}
> final String query = "select cast(NULL as integer) as col "
>     + "from \"foodmart\".\"product\"";
> {code}
> However,  the converted query by *RelToSqlConverter* is illegal in Calcite.
> {code:java}
> SELECT NULL AS \"COL\"
> FROM \"foodmart\".\"product\"
> {code}
> The issue is trivial, but it is against to general sense. Maybe we can generate NULL literal in SqlDialect?



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