Github user fhueske commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2562#discussion_r82999720
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flink-libraries/flink-table/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/api/table/typeutils/RowIntervalTypeInfo.scala
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+package org.apache.flink.api.table.typeutils
+
+import java.util.Objects
+
+import org.apache.flink.api.common.ExecutionConfig
+import org.apache.flink.api.common.typeinfo.{AtomicType, TypeInformation}
+import org.apache.flink.api.common.typeutils.base.{LongComparator,
LongSerializer}
+import org.apache.flink.api.common.typeutils.{TypeComparator,
TypeSerializer}
+import
org.apache.flink.api.table.typeutils.RowIntervalTypeInfo.instantiateComparator
+import org.apache.flink.util.Preconditions._
+
+/**
+ * TypeInformation for row intervals.
+ */
+@SerialVersionUID(-1306179424364925258L)
+class RowIntervalTypeInfo[T](
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OK, I understand the issue with the instance checks (although I would think
these checks are not correct if they fail in such a cases).
However, providing a full implementation for each internal type does not
seem right. How about we create a special abstract TypeInfo for types that are
not required at execution time and implement all irrelevant methods (arity,
serializer, comparator, etc.) with `UnsupportedOperationException`.
`RowIntervalTypeInfo` and `TimeIntervalTypeInfo` would extend that and just
provide the type.
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