Github user paul-rogers commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/1138#discussion_r171607241
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exec/java-exec/src/main/java/org/apache/drill/exec/store/avro/AvroRecordReader.java
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@@ -295,7 +301,8 @@ private void processPrimitive(final Object value, final
Schema.Type type, final
writer.binary(fieldName).writeVarBinary(0, length, buffer);
break;
case NULL:
- // Nothing to do for null type
+ // The default Drill behaviour is to create int column
+ writer.integer(fieldName);
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This maps a NULL type to integer. Probably OK if we do this consistently.
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