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ASF GitHub Bot updated FLINK-12874:
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> Improve the semantics of zero length character strings
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> Key: FLINK-12874
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-12874
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: Table SQL / API
> Reporter: Timo Walther
> Assignee: Timo Walther
> Priority: Major
> Labels: pull-request-available
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> Zero-length character strings need special treatment as the SQL standard
> forbids to declare those type of character strings. For the type inference
> (e.g. determine the return type of a \{{TRIM('')}}) it should be possible to
> return zero-lengths VARCHAR types.
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> In any case, those type should not have a serializable string representation.
> Similar behavior is done in the Oracle system: \{{SELECT DUMP(TRIM('')) AS tt
> FROM dual;}} returns \{{NULL}}.
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