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ramkrishna.s.vasudevan commented on PHOENIX-777:
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bq.We won't be able to represent a null primitive type without taking the bit
map approach that Dimindu took. Just use a zero long value for null and leave
it to the client to interpret.
Yes we are doing it now. But for DATE type is what we were discussing. We
cannot write 0 for date as it will interpret it as a DATE in 1970.
> Support null value for fixed length ARRAY
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> Key: PHOENIX-777
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-777
> Project: Phoenix
> Issue Type: Task
> Reporter: James Taylor
> Assignee: Dumindu Buddhika
> Fix For: 4.4.0
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> A null value for a fixed length array can be handled with a bitset tacked on
> the end of the array. If an element is set to null, then the bit at that
> index is set. Trailing nulls are not stored and an attempt to access an array
> past the current size returns null.
> Current behavior,
> PBinaryArray - Throws an exception when a null is inserted.
> PBooleanArray - null is considered as false when a null is inserted.
> PCharArray - Throws an exception when a null is inserted.
> PDateArray - Throws an exception when a null is inserted.
> PDoubleArray - null is considered as 0.0 when a null is inserted.
> PFloatArray - null is considered as 0.0 when a null is inserted.
> PIntegerArray - null is considered as 0 when a null is inserted.
> PLongArray - null is considered as 0 when a null is inserted.
> PSmallIntArray - null is considered as 0 when a null is inserted.
> PTimeArray - Throws an exception when a null is inserted.
> PTimeStampArray - Throws an exception when a null is inserted.
> PTinyIntArray - null is considered as 0 when a null is inserted.
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