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ASF GitHub Bot commented on DRILL-8136: --------------------------------------- cgivre closed pull request #2461: DRILL-8136: Overload existing Math UDFs to allow for VARCHAR input URL: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/2461 > Overhaul implict type casting logic > ----------------------------------- > > Key: DRILL-8136 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-8136 > Project: Apache Drill > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Esther Buchwalter > Assignee: James Turton > Priority: Minor > > The existing implicit casting system is built on simplistic total ordering of > data types[1] that yields oddities such as TINYINT being regarded as the > closest numeric type to VARCHAR or DATE the closest type to FLOAT8. This, in > turn, hurts the range of data types with which SQL functions can be used. > E.g. `select sqrt('3.1415926')` works in many RDBMSes but not in Drill while, > confusingly, `select '123' + 456` does work in Drill. In addition the > limitations of the existing type precedence list mean that it has been > supplmented with ad hoc secondary casting rules that go in the opposite > direction. > This Issue proposes a new, more flexible definition of casting distance based > on a weighted directed graph built over the Drill data types. > [1] > [https://drill.apache.org/docs/supported-data-types/#implicit-casting-precedence-of-data-types] -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.10#820010)