cgivre commented on PR #2638:
URL: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/2638#issuecomment-1243728471
> Turns out this particular one isn't possible without breaking other things
that need VARCHAR to go to INT before it goes to DATE.
>
> ```
> apache drill> select
cgivre commented on PR #2638:
URL: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/2638#issuecomment-1241993355
@jnturton Did you see my question about boolean values?
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cgivre commented on PR #2638:
URL: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/2638#issuecomment-1241992856
> I wonder whether ResolverTypePrecedence should cache computed casting
costs, or whether that would be premature optimisation.
Maybe make that a separate PR. In theory the whole
cgivre commented on PR #2638:
URL: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/2638#issuecomment-1240788876
>
This is really a MAJOR usability improvement. Will it also be able to cast
`"true"` and `"false"` as boolean values? Likewise for:
* True
* TRUE
* TrUe
etc
cgivre commented on PR #2638:
URL: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/2638#issuecomment-1240779567
>
That brings a tear to me eye!
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cgivre commented on PR #2638:
URL: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/2638#issuecomment-1238556786
@jnturton Do you think this should be included in the backport to stable?
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cgivre commented on PR #2638:
URL: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/2638#issuecomment-1236342717
@jnturton Thanks for this. IMHO this will be a MAJOR improvement in
usability. I have a question about date conversions. Let's say we have a
query like this:
```sql
SELECT...
