Hello Sergei!
The proposal makes a lot of sense, and Martijn is right as well. Are you willing to drive the FLIP effort? Do you need any assistance with that? On Mar 4, 2024 at 01:48 +0100, Martijn Visser <martijnvis...@apache.org>, wrote: > Hi, > > I think it would first require a FLIP, given it touches on the core type > system of SQL. > > Best regards, > > Martijn > > On Sat, Mar 2, 2024 at 5:34 PM Sergei Morozov <moro...@tut.by> wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > org.apache.flink.table.api.DataTypes allows the creation of temporal data > > types by specifying precision (e.g. TIME(3)) or omitting it (TIME()). The > > ability to omit precision for temporal types was introduced in > > apache/flink@36fef44 > > < > > https://github.com/apache/flink/commit/36fef4457a7f1de47989c8a2485581bcf8633b32 > > > > > > . > > > > Unfortunately, this isn't possible for other data types (e.g. CHAR, > > DECIMAL). > > Even though they define defaults for length, precision, and scale, their > > values have to be passed to the method explicitly. > > > > Would a PR be accepted which will introduce the methods for the remaining > > types similar to the temporal ones? > > > > Thanks. > >
