[jira] [Commented] (DRILL-2935) Casting varchar to varbinary fails

["Daniel Barclay (Drill) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Daniel Barclay (Drill) commented on DRILL-2935:
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What VARBINARY value (what sequence of bytes) did you expect casting the string 'apache ' to yield?



> Casting varchar to varbinary fails
> ----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: DRILL-2935
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-2935
>             Project: Apache Drill
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Execution - Data Types
>            Reporter: Rahul Challapalli
>            Assignee: Daniel Barclay (Drill)
>         Attachments: error.log
>
>
> git.commit.id.abbrev=5fbd274
> The below query fails :
> {code}
> select concat(cast(cast('apache ' as varchar(7)) as varbinary(20)), 'drill') from `dummy.json`;
> Query failed: PARSE ERROR: From line 1, column 15 to line 1, column 66: Cast function cannot convert value of type VARCHAR(7) to type VARBINARY(20)
> [4b5916d1-6b96-42a0-9afa-80706f2bd263 on qa-node191.qa.lab:31010]
> Error: exception while executing query: Failure while executing query. (state=,code=0)
> {code}
> I attached the error log. 



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