[GitHub] drill pull request #1242: DRILL-6361: Revised typeOf() function versions

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[GitHub] drill pull request #1242: DRILL-6361: Revised typeOf() function versions

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[GitHub] drill pull request #1242: DRILL-6361: Revised typeOf() function versions

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[GitHub] drill pull request #1242: DRILL-6361: Revised typeOf() function versions

GitHub user paul-rogers opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/1242 DRILL-6361: Revised typeOf() function versions Drill provides the `typeof()` function to return the type of a column. However, this function has two key limitations: 1. It returns NULL