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Joris Gillis commented on DRILL-3806:
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I am experiencing the same issue. Any progress in the meantime?
> add metadata for untyped null and simple type promotion
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>
> Key: DRILL-3806
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-3806
> Project: Apache Drill
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Execution - Data Types
> Reporter: Julien Le Dem
> Fix For: Future
>
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> Currently when a field has literal null values in JSON the type will be
> assigned as BIGINT by default for lack of better type.
> ```
> {
> "a": null
> }
> ```
> if later on a is assigned with a string value the query will fail with a
> schema change error,
> The idea is to capture the notion of "untyped null" and implement simple type
> promotion from untyped null to the actual type.
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