I agree to force the partition column to not be empty when creating the table. But I have a question, under what circumstances will the partition column data of the business side be null and the user wants to keep this data at the same time ?
Ling Miao Xinyi Zou <zouxinyi...@foxmail.com> 于2020年10月29日周四 下午4:26写道： > The null value to be a partition value is very confusing. > > > Currently, partition column can be defined as "allow null" when create > table. the null value is stored in the partition with MIN_VALUE lower > bound. But if that partition is dropped, the null value can not be loaded. > So I think it is not a good way to solve the problem. > > > > Is it necessary to allow null value to be a partition value? If the > null partition column is not supported，how to deal with the current > existing table containing null values? > > > > We have discussed it in the > https://github.com/apache/incubator-doris/pull/4735 before this > > > Xinyi Zou
