Github user dilipbiswal commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/16954#discussion_r104301109
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sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/analysis/TypeCoercion.scala
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@@ -109,6 +109,26 @@ object TypeCoercion {
}
/**
+ * This function determines the target type of a comparison operator
when one operand
+ * is a String and the other is not. It also handles when one op is a
Date and the
+ * other is a Timestamp by making the target type to be String.
Currently this is used
+ * to coerce types between LHS and RHS of the IN expression.
+ */
+ val findCommonTypeForBinaryComparison: (DataType, DataType) =>
Option[DataType] = {
+ case (StringType, DateType) => Some(StringType)
+ case (DateType, StringType) => Some(StringType)
+ case (StringType, TimestampType) => Some(StringType)
+ case (TimestampType, StringType) => Some(StringType)
+ case (TimestampType, DateType) => Some(StringType)
--- End diff --
@hvanhovell Thanks!!. I had tried to do this before as well as this came up
during the internal review. I have made another try. Please let me know what
you think.
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