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Mehant Baid updated DRILL-2870:
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Assignee: Aman Sinha (was: Mehant Baid)
> Fix return type of aggregate functions to be nullable
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> Key: DRILL-2870
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-2870
> Project: Apache Drill
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Mehant Baid
> Assignee: Aman Sinha
> Priority: Critical
> Fix For: 1.0.0
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> Attachments: DRILL-2870.patch
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> The output type of aggregate functions is required if the input is required
> which does not always hold true. Consider the case where input is a required
> type and we are performing sum(), however if all the rows are filtered out
> then we should return null instead of 0. This holds true for all aggregate
> functions (except count).
> As part of DRILL-2277 we are fixing the case when we have an aggregate
> function (without group by) and the input batch is empty we still need to
> produce one record with null as output (count function is an exception to
> this). If we don't fix the return type of aggregate functions then we will
> return wrong results in the case where we have an empty input with required
> columns.
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