Hi Julian, After some further analysis, it seems that the mandatory cast is only required in SOME cases for BigQuery. Please see attached my analysis for Hive, MySQL, Netezza and Oracle.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1GJ_VuDY7GQS-aPbWf4EKj73dYCqaRaEqPTjmXLkPW_g I'm thinking of having the dialect intercept this and check the specific conditions (specified in the sheet above) and decide whether or not to remove the cast. Regards, Soma On Mon, 26 Aug 2019 at 22:29, Julian Hyde <[email protected]> wrote: > I might be mistaken, but disabling stripCastFromString() for some dialects > and not others doesn’t sound like it’s solving the root cause of the > problem. > > Julian > > > > On Aug 26, 2019, at 7:49 AM, Soma Mondal <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hi Julian, > > > > 2 tests failed when I made the stripCastFromString() no-op. > > > > 1. > > > > testDb2DialectSelectQueryWithGroup > > 2. > > > > testSelectQueryWithGroup > > > > Above tests pretty much do the same thing and basically strip the cast > from > > String literal something like this: > > > > Expected: > > > > SELECT COUNT(*), SUM(employee_id) > > > > FROM foodmart.reserve_employee > > > > WHERE hire_date > '2015-01-01' AND (position_title = 'SDE' OR > > position_title = 'SDM') > > > > GROUP BY store_id, position_title > > > > But with no-op we get this: > > > > SELECT COUNT(*), SUM(employee_id) > > > > FROM foodmart.reserve_employee > > > > WHERE hire_date > CAST('2015-01-01' AS TIMESTAMP(0)) AND (position_title > = > > 'SDE' OR position_title = 'SDM') > > > > GROUP BY store_id, position_title > > > > Can I go ahead and make changes where calls to stripCastFromString() will > > be skipped for specific dialects? > > > > Regards, > > > > Soma > > > > > > On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 at 16:02, Soma Mondal <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> We have a REL which has this information > >> select * from employee where employee_id = cast('12' as float); > >> > >> but Calcite removes the CAST from the STRING literal('12' in our case). > >> select * from employee where employee_id = '12'; > >> > >> There are dialects which needs explicit casting in the above case and we > >> need to maintain the CAST in our dialect. > >> Calcite removes the cast in SqlImplementor's stripCastFromString() > >> method. I would like to understand why Calcite removes the CAST and > shall > >> we go ahead and make the changes in Calcite to maintain the CAST. > >> > >> Thanks & Regards, > >> Soma Mondal > >> > >
