This whole SQL prototype needs to get rewritten at some point.
It really is just a quickly put together, poorly tested prototype.
(I've started to fiddle a tiny litlte bit with Project Ibis (
https://github.com/ibis-project/ibis) and maybe implementing a SQL FE to
this and a simple in-memory BE could leverage its type system and provide a
more robust SQL-like implementation.)


On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 9:52 AM Stefano Zacchiroli <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 06:33:48AM -0700, [email protected]
> wrote:
> > Did you already try :
> > STR(ANY_META('trip')) != null ??
>
> Oh, I didn't know about null in BQL. So the following works (which is
> probably what you meant above):
>
>   ANY_META('trip') != null
>
> and is indeed quite nice.
>
> Interpreting null values as False in boolean context would still be a
> nice to have, but it's definitely not more important than that.
>
> Thanks for the tip!
>
> Cheers
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