[DRILL-3232] Modify existing vectors to allow type promotion

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.3.0
• Component/s: Execution - Codegen, Execution - Data Types, Execution - Relational Operators, Functions - Drill
• Assignee: Steven Phillips
• Reporter: Steven Phillips
• Created: 01/Jun/15 19:05
• Updated: 28/Jan/16 21:16
• Resolved: 28/Jan/16 21:16

Description

Support the ability for existing vectors to be promoted similar to supported implicit casting rules.

For example:

INT > DOUBLE > STRING > EMBEDDED