Github user jacques-n commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/257#discussion_r44882906
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exec/java-exec/src/main/java/org/apache/drill/exec/expr/fn/impl/UnionFunctions.java
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@@ -32,16 +33,72 @@
import org.apache.drill.exec.expr.holders.UnionHolder;
import org.apache.drill.exec.expr.holders.IntHolder;
import org.apache.drill.exec.expr.holders.VarCharHolder;
+import org.apache.drill.exec.resolver.TypeCastRules;
import org.apache.drill.exec.vector.complex.impl.UnionReader;
import org.apache.drill.exec.vector.complex.reader.FieldReader;
import javax.inject.Inject;
+import java.util.Set;
/**
* The class contains additional functions for union types in addition to
those in GUnionFunctions
*/
public class UnionFunctions {
+ /**
+ * Returns zero if the inputs have equivalent types. Two numeric types
are considered equivalent, as are a combination
+ * of date/timestamp. If not equivalent, returns a value determined by
the numeric value of the MinorType enum
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let's add an additional ordering ordinal to the minortype enum so that we
match Mongo's ordering among types
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