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Todd Nemet commented on SPARK-17818: ------------------------------------ I'm referring to your example above of SELECT CAST(NULL AS NULL) which I don't believe is valid SQL. SELECT NULL definitely is, and that's what needs to work. I cast NULL as an INT and a STRING, but not a NULL. Again, thanks for the help. > Cannot SELECT NULL > ------------------ > > Key: SPARK-17818 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-17818 > Project: Spark > Issue Type: Bug > Components: SQL > Affects Versions: 2.0.0, 2.0.1 > Reporter: Todd Nemet > Fix For: 2.0.2 > > > When connecting to Spark SQL via JDBC/thriftserver, running `SELECT NULL` > returns this error: > {code} > 0: jdbc:hive2://localhost:10016/> select cast(NULL as NULL); > Error: org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.parser.ParseException: > DataType null() is not supported.(line 1, pos 20) > {code} > This is a regression from Spark 1.x/Hive QL compatibility. In Spark 1.5.2, > The same query returns NULL: > {code} > 0: jdbc:hive2://localhost:10015/> select null; > +-------+--+ > | _c0 | > +-------+--+ > | NULL | > +-------+--+ > 1 row selected (0.658 seconds) > {code} > I can select expressions that evaluate to NULL or CAST NULL to different > types: > {code} > 0: jdbc:hive2://localhost:10016/> select null=null > 0: jdbc:hive2://localhost:10016/> ; > +----------------+--+ > | (NULL = NULL) | > +----------------+--+ > | NULL | > +----------------+--+ > 1 row selected (0.69 seconds) > 0: jdbc:hive2://localhost:10016/> select cast (NULL as int); > +--------------------+--+ > | CAST(NULL AS INT) | > +--------------------+--+ > | NULL | > +--------------------+--+ > 1 row selected (0.676 seconds) > 0: jdbc:hive2://localhost:10016/> select cast (NULL as string); > +-----------------------+--+ > | CAST(NULL AS STRING) | > +-----------------------+--+ > | NULL | > +-----------------------+--+ > {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@spark.apache.org