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ASF GitHub Bot commented on DRILL-6361:
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kfaraaz commented on issue #1242: DRILL-6361: Added typeOf() function variations
URL: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/1242#issuecomment-386088280
@paul-rogers thanks for uncovering the bugs and reporting them.
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> Provide sqlTypeOf() and modeOf() functions
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> Key: DRILL-6361
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-6361
> Project: Apache Drill
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 1.13.0
> Reporter: Paul Rogers
> Assignee: Paul Rogers
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: doc-impacting
> Fix For: 1.14.0
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> Drill provides a {{typeof()}} function to return the type of a column. The
> returned string, however, has only the base data type. A Drill data type (a
> "major type") also includes a cardinality (a "mode"). For example, {{Optional
> Int}} or {{Required VarChar}}.
> This type information is useful for handling data conversions. For example,
> if I could tell that a column value was a {{Nullable Int}}, I could guess
> that it is one Drill invented, and I could merge it, by hand, with the type
> from another file that had actual values.
> The two options are equivalent. Either provide a {{modeOf()}} to just return
> cardinality, or a {{dataTypeOf()}} that returns both. (Maybe the {{modeOf()}}
> might be more useful.)
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