Hi,

> When creating views you combine tables together and sometimes want to set
> the value of a column to null.

OK. In this case I suggest to use this syntax: CREATE TABLE TEST(ID
IDENTITY, NAME VARCHAR) AS SELECT X, NULL;

> That's why I sent it as a bug report.
> So you can append it in your list of bugs.

Yes, sure. I do think the right solution would be to allow CAST(NULL
AS VARCHAR), however I need to understand if the workaround is
feasible, so that I can give it the "right" priority.

> but the worst part is about SQL portability.

I agree.

> A working and syntactically correct  SQL on H2, MySql, PgSql, DB2, etc.  has 
> a different result only in H2 !

Yes, that's unfortunate. I invite you to send patches to fix it :-)

Regards,
Thomas

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