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Julian Hyde commented on CALCITE-2302:
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Calcite already does some implicit conversions. I agree we could do more.
Can you describe your use cases more fully?
> Implicit type cast support
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>
> Key: CALCITE-2302
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-2302
> Project: Calcite
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: core
> Affects Versions: 1.17.0
> Reporter: Yuzhao Chen
> Assignee: Julian Hyde
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 1.17.0
>
>
> Now many DBs have support implicit type cast, eg: SqlServer, Oracle, Hive.
> Implicit type cast is an useful function for many cases, So we should support
> this.
> I checkout Calcite code and found that:
> # Now we use a validator to validate our operands types[ through kinds of
> namespaces and scopes ]
> # Most of the validations will finally goes to
> {code:java}
> SqlOperator.validateOperands
> {code}
> # which will use validation logic defined in corresponding
> SqlOperandTypeChecker
> What i'm confused about is where should i put the implicit type cast logic
> in? I figured out 2 ways:
> # Supply a tool class/rules to add casts into a parsed SqlNode tree which
> will then go through the validation logic later on.
> # Unleash the validation logic in kinds of SqlOperandTypeChecker, then modify
> the RelNode/RexNodes tree converted from a validated SqlNode tree to add in
> casts through custom RelOptRules.
> So guys, which of the 2 ways should i go, or if there are better way to do
> this?
> I need your help.
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