IMHO to allow reflexivity, symmetry and transitivity relations for
equivalence '=';
transitivity and anti-reflexivity relations for '>' operator, we should
cast both operands to the type that has greater precision.

2017-09-01 19:45 GMT+03:00 Julian Hyde <[email protected]>:

> I think you’re running into https://issues.apache.org/
> jira/browse/CALCITE-1178 <https://issues.apache.org/
> jira/browse/CALCITE-1178> which was logged by a Drill committer a while
> ago but has not been fixed. Calcite is strongly typed internally. So if we
> are to allow ’aTimestamp > aDate’ then we either have to add a new overload
> of ‘>’ that allows (timestamp, date) arguments, or we need to insert
> implicit casts, so the expression becomes either ‘cast(aTimestamp AS DATE)
> > aDate’ or ‘aTimestamp > CAST(aDate AS TIMESTAMP)’.
>
> I don’t know which of these 3 alternatives matches the desired semantics
> of ‘>’.
>
> What should the following expressions return?
>
>   TIMESTAMP ‘1970-01-01 12:00:00’ > DATE ‘1970-01-01’
>   TIMESTAMP ‘1970-01-01 12:00:00’ = DATE ‘1970-01-01’
>   TIMESTAMP ‘1970-01-01 12:00:00’ >= DATE ‘1970-01-01’
>
>
> Julian
>
>
> > On Sep 1, 2017, at 9:31 AM, Roman Kulyk <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, team!
> >
> > Working on upgrade of Calcite version for Drill I got class cast
> exceptions
> > like "ClassCastException: org.apache.calcite.util.DateString cannot be
> cast
> > to org.apache.calcite.util.TimestampString" in Drill.
> >
> > This issue is reproducible we have "date + interval" situation, for
> example:
> >
> >
> >
> > *where  o.o_orderdate >= date '1996-10-01'  and o.o_orderdate < date
> > '1996-10-01' + interval '3' month*
> >
> > In this case Drill will cast DATE to TIMESTAMP and we will get
> > ClassCastException when Calcite will try to compare DateString
> > ('1996-10-01') with TimestampString ('1996-10-01' + interval '3'). To
> avoid
> > this situation added a general class for Date/Time/Timestamp literals to
> > make them comparable to each other. You can see my commit in my local
> > branch: https://github.com/KulykRoman/incubator-calcite/commit/0656d8fec
> >
> > So do I need to create Calcite Jira and open pull request on Calcite
> master
> > or this changes should be only in Drill-Calcite branch?
>
>


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Kind regards,
Volodymyr Vysotskyi

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