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xuyangzhong commented on CALCITE-4771:
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Hi,[~julianhyde]. I found the following databases:
* SqlServer provides TRY_CAST since version 2014.
* In Oracle we can use “cast(... DEFAULT NULL ON CONVERSION ERROR)” to return
NULL when an error happen in cast since version 12.2.
* In Google BigQuery ,there is a function named safe_cast, which will return
NULL instead of an error.
* SnowFlake provides TRY_CAST.
* T-SQL provides TRY_CAST.
* Databricks provides TRY_CAST.
* ClickHouse provides accurateCastOrNull
* ......
> change the value of the CAST function to be nullable
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> Key: CALCITE-4771
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-4771
> Project: Calcite
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: xuyangzhong
> Priority: Major
>
> In the sql "SELECT CAST('haha' AS INT)",the value the function CAST returns
> will be parsed into NOT NULL, because when parsing, the type CAST returns is
> from the INT and the nullable attribute is from the 'haha', which doesn't
> consider the condition that parsing a string to an int could be invalid and
> return NULL values.
> I think there are two ways to improve this question:
> * One is to change the value of the CAST function to be nullable, which
> avoids the invalid parsing.
> * The other way is to introduce a function named TRY_CAST, which is used in
> SQL Server.If the parsing fails, TRY_CAST will return NULL instead of throws
> exception that a NOT NULL field will be set with our unexpected value NULL.
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