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Todd Nemet commented on SPARK-17818:
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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}



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