Details
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Improvement
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Status: Resolved
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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1.14.0
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None
Description
When `drill.exec.functions.cast_empty_string_to_null` option is enabled
`to_date`, `to_time` and `to_timestamp` functions while converting string to according type in case if null or empty string values are passed will return NULL (to avoid CASE clauses which are littering a query and will work in accordance with their respective CAST counterparts) for both cases.
CASTs will be handled in a similar way (uniformly with numeric types):
Value to cast | Now | Will be |
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NULL | NULL | NULL |
'' (empty string) | Error in many cases (except numerical types) | NULL |
CAST empty string to null (in case of enabled option) will be supported by DATE, TIME, TIMESTAMP, INTERVAL YEAR, INTERVAL MONTH and INTERVAL DAY functions in addition to numeric types.
For documentation
TBA
Attachments
Issue Links
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DRILL-6817 Update to_number function to be consistent with CAST function
- Resolved
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DRILL-6815 Improve code generation to handle functions with NullHandling.NULL_IF_NULL better
- Open
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