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Hequn Cheng reassigned FLINK-9559:
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Assignee: Zhenghua Gao (was: Hequn Cheng)
> The type of a union of CHAR columns of different lengths should be VARCHAR
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> Key: FLINK-9559
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-9559
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: Table SQL / API
> Reporter: Hequn Cheng
> Assignee: Zhenghua Gao
> Priority: Major
> Labels: pull-request-available
> Time Spent: 10m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> Currently, If the case-when expression has two branches which return string
> literal, redundant white spaces will be appended to the short string literal.
> For example, for the sql: case 1 when 1 then 'a' when 2 then 'bcd' end, the
> return value will be 'a ' of CHAR(3) instead of 'a'.
> Although, this follows the behavior in strict SQL standard mode(SQL:2003). We
> should get the pragmatic return type in a real scenario without blank-padded.
> Happily, this problem has been fixed by
> [CALCITE-2321|https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-2321], we can
> upgrade calcite to the next release(1.17.0) and override
> {{RelDataTypeSystem}} in flink to configure the return type, i.e., making
> {{shouldConvertRaggedUnionTypesToVarying()}} return true.
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