Github user rxin commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1136#issuecomment-46635173
To be more specific, I think you can always add a cast that cast the having
expression to boolean, and then we have SimplifyCasts in the optimizer that
would remove unnecessary casts.
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