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James Taylor commented on PHOENIX-3940:
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+1. Thanks, [~elserj]!
> NullPointerException on PERCENTILE_CONT over an empty result set
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> Key: PHOENIX-3940
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-3940
> Project: Phoenix
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Josh Elser
> Assignee: Josh Elser
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 4.12.0
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> Attachments: PHOENIX-3940.001.patch, PHOENIX-3940.002.patch
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> A user reported that when running a query with {{PERCENTILE_CONT}} where the
> selection has no results (e.g. nothing to compute the P_C on), a
> NullPointerException is thrown.
> Glancing at the code, it can handle the case where there is only one value,
> but handling the case where there are no values fails.
> Reading over Oracle and SqlServer docs, it doesn't saw what "should" happen
> in these cases. Is "0" a sane value? Or is an exception actually a good idea?
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/functions/percentile-cont-transact-sql
> https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28286/functions115.htm#SQLRF00687
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