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Julian Hyde commented on CALCITE-2321:
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You could apply this behavior during sql-to-rel conversion also. It doesn't
really have to be part of RelDataTypeSystem or SqlTypeFactoryImpl (even though
that's where the code lives historically).
I misspoke when I said at it to dialect. Dialect is mainly used for generating
SQL, not parsing/validating SQL. I think SqlConformance is the best place for
it.
> Support ragged fixed length value union be variable
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>
> Key: CALCITE-2321
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-2321
> Project: Calcite
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: core
> Reporter: Hequn Cheng
> Assignee: Hequn Cheng
> Priority: Major
>
> The {{shouldRaggedFixedLengthValueUnionBeVariable()}} function in
> {{SqlTypeFactoryImpl}} always return false now. It is good to make it
> configurable since some system may need the function to return true to
> provide pragmatic behavior. For example, for the sql: case 1 when 1 then 'a'
> when 2 then 'bcd' end, we need the return value to be 'a' instead of 'a ' of
> CHAR(3).
> I see one option to solve this issue: Add {{boolean
> shouldRaggedFixedLengthValueUnionBeVariable()}} in {{RelDataTypeSystem}}, so
> external system can override to configure the value.
> Any suggestions are welcomed. Thanks a lot.
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