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Saad Ur Rahman commented on FLINK-20578:
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As I understand the problem we would need to override
[SqlMultisetValueConstructor.checkOperandTypes|https://github.com/apache/calcite/blob/77bb696d020bea4467151109ffed4ced53ff0c2d/core/src/main/java/org/apache/calcite/sql/fun/SqlMultisetValueConstructor.java#L87]:
In
[SqlArrayConstructor|https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/2cb477343de5dce70978c0add5ec58edbaec157c/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/table/planner/functions/sql/SqlArrayConstructor.java#L33]
My solution would be to perform a check in the overridden
_SqlArrayConstructor.checkOperandTypes_ for empty _argTypes_, pack the
_callBinding_ with a value and pass it to the _super.checkOperandTypes_ to
process it as it would before. The reason I want to pack it with a value is
that there was a reason why an empty _argTypes_ was supposed to originally
throw an error.
Then the question becomes that which [~pensz] raised: what [argument
type|https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.13/docs/dev/table/types/#constructured-data-types]
should be used?
> Cannot create empty array using ARRAY[]
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> Key: FLINK-20578
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-20578
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: Table SQL / API
> Affects Versions: 1.11.2
> Reporter: Fabian Hueske
> Priority: Major
> Labels: starter
> Fix For: 1.15.0
>
>
> Calling the ARRAY function without an element (`ARRAY[]`) results in an error
> message.
> Is that the expected behavior?
> How can users create empty arrays?
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