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Rick Hillegas reassigned DERBY-4720:
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Assignee: Rick Hillegas
> Allow boolean-valued expressions in select lists
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> Key: DERBY-4720
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4720
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: SQL
> Affects Versions: 10.6.1.0
> Reporter: Rick Hillegas
> Assignee: Rick Hillegas
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> When the BOOLEAN datatype was disabled, the grammar was peppered with special
> checks to make sure that expressions like "a > 10" did not appear in the
> SELECT list. Perhaps this was done to reduce the number of cases in which
> BOOLEAN values could be materialized as columns in queries. That is, however,
> an unsatisfying reason because you could always materialize BOOLEAN columns
> by selecting from certain system tables. In any event, the SQL grammar allows
> these expressions in the SELECT list and we should re-enable them as part of
> exposing BOOLEAN as a full-fledged Derby datatype.
> I intend to re-enable these expressions per the SQL spec. If anyone knows of
> a reason why this should not be allowed, please speak up. Thanks.
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