Mihai Budiu created CALCITE-5987:
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             Summary: SqlImplementor loses type information for literals
                 Key: CALCITE-5987
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-5987
             Project: Calcite
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: core
    Affects Versions: 1.35.0
            Reporter: Mihai Budiu


When converting a SqlNode to a String query, the conversion can produce SQL 
that computes different results. This happens because literals do not carry 
type information in the result string. For example, this plan:

{code}
rel#7:LogicalValues.(type=RecordType(VARCHAR(3) EXPR$0),tuples=[{ 'A' }])
{code}

will generate a SQL query:

{code}
SELECT 'A'
{code}

While the type of the former result is VARCHAR(3), the latter query produces a 
CHAR(1) result.

It would be nice if SqlImplementor had an option to produce a query that 
preserves the output type, e.g.:

{code}
SELECT (CAST 'A' as VARCHAR(3))
{code}



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