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Benjamin Lerer commented on CASSANDRA-11935:
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Also, I actually don't think we should allow 'double + int' at all: we're a
database where the size of things matter and we shouldn't be implicit in
changing the size of what we deal with.
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I checked
([Oracle|https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/sql_elements002.htm#g195937],
[SQLServer|https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms191530.aspx] and
[MySQL|http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/type-conversion.html]) and they
all provide implicite data conversion to allow things like 'double + int'. It
is not about changing the size of data on disk, it is more about facilitating
the users life by providing them some way to transform their data in what they
need easily. I think that there is a lot of cases where you might want to
perform some operations between 2 differents numeric types.
> Add support for arithmetic operators
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>
> Key: CASSANDRA-11935
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-11935
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: CQL
> Reporter: Benjamin Lerer
> Assignee: Benjamin Lerer
> Fix For: 3.x
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>
> The goal of this ticket is to add support for arithmetic operators:
> * {{-}}: Change the sign of the argument
> * {{+}}: Addition operator
> * {{-}}: Minus operator
> * {{*}}: Multiplication operator
> * {{/}}: Division operator
> * {{%}}: Modulo operator
> This ticket we should focus on adding operator only for numeric types to keep
> the scope as small as possible. Dates and string operations will be adressed
> in follow up tickets.
> The operation precedence should be:
> # {{*}}, {{/}}, {{%}}
> # {{+}}, {{-}}
> Some implicit data conversion should be performed when operations are
> performed on different types (e.g. double + int).
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