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Dinesh Garg commented on IMPALA-5929:
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Reopened since the fix introduced a bug as explained in IMPALA-7960.
> Remove useless explicit casts to string
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> Key: IMPALA-5929
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-5929
> Project: IMPALA
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Frontend
> Affects Versions: Impala 2.5.0, Impala 2.6.0, Impala 2.7.0, Impala 2.8.0,
> Impala 2.9.0, Impala 2.10.0
> Reporter: Alexander Behm
> Assignee: Bikramjeet Vig
> Priority: Critical
> Labels: newbie
> Fix For: Impala 2.12.0
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> Some BI tools like to generate expressions that look like this:
> {code}
> cast(numeric_col as string) = '123456'
> {code}
> Casting and comparing as string is expensive and we should convert such
> expressions to:
> {code}
> numeric_col = 123456
> {code}
> Such transformations may be applicable in other situations as well. We should
> be careful about transforming inequality predicates because the string and
> numeric comparison might not always be equivalent. For example, the following
> transformation would be wrong:
> {code}
> cast(numeric_col as string) = '0123456'
> {code}
> is *not* equivalent to
> {code}
> numeric_col = 123456
> {code}
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