[DRILL-597] shouldn't we have a interval data type in Drill?

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Fix Version/s: 0.4.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Chun Chang
• Created: 30/Apr/14 00:51
• Updated: 17/Feb/17 23:00
• Resolved: 09/Jun/14 06:47

Description

In postgres, interval itself is a valid data type. It seems in drill, it's not the case, only interval year/day... are valid.

0: jdbc:drill:schema=dfs> select cast(c_interval as interval) from data;
Query failed: org.apache.drill.exec.rpc.RpcException: Remote failure while running query.[error_id: "689c6a7b-cc66-47b2-8205-d79128060541"
endpoint {
address: "qa-node119.qa.lab"
user_port: 31010
control_port: 31011
data_port: 31012
}
error_type: 0
message: "Failure while parsing sql. < SqlParseException:[ Encountered \"interval )\" at line 1, column 27.\nWas expecting one of:\n \"CHARACTER\" ...\n \"CHAR\" ...\n \"VARCHAR\" ...\n \"DATE\" ...\n \"TIME\" ...\n \"TIMESTAMP\" ...\n \"DECIMAL\" ...\n \"DEC\" ...\n \"NUMERIC\" ...\n \"BOOLEAN\" ...\n \"INTEGER\" ...\n \"INT\" ...\n \"BINARY\" ...\n \"VARBINARY\" ...\n \"TINYINT\" ...\n \"SMALLINT\" ...\n \"BIGINT\" ...\n \"REAL\" ...\n \"DOUBLE\" ...\n \"FLOAT\" ...\n \"ANY\" ...\n \"MULTISET\" ...\n <IDENTIFIER> ...\n <QUOTED_IDENTIFIER> ...\n <BACK_QUOTED_IDENTIFIER> ...\n <BRACKET_QUOTED_IDENTIFIER> ...\n <UNICODE_QUOTED_IDENTIFIER> ...\n \"INTERVAL\" \"YEAR\" ...\n \"INTERVAL\" \"MONTH\" ...\n \"INTERVAL\" \"DAY\" ...\n \"INTERVAL\" \"HOUR\" ...\n \"INTERVAL\" \"MINUTE\" ...\n \"INTERVAL\" \"SECOND\" ...\n ] < ParseException:[ Encountered \"interval )\" at line 1, column 27.\nWas expecting one of:\n \"CHARACTER\" ...\n \"CHAR\" ...\n \"VARCHAR\" ...\n \"DATE\" ...\n \"TIME\" ...\n \"TIMESTAMP\" ...\n \"DECIMAL\" ...\n \"DEC\" ...\n \"NUMERIC\" ...\n \"BOOLEAN\" ...\n \"INTEGER\" ...\n \"INT\" ...\n \"BINARY\" ...\n \"VARBINARY\" ...\n \"TINYINT\" ...\n \"SMALLINT\" ...\n \"BIGINT\" ...\n \"REAL\" ...\n \"DOUBLE\" ...\n \"FLOAT\" ...\n \"ANY\" ...\n \"MULTISET\" ...\n <IDENTIFIER> ...\n <QUOTED_IDENTIFIER> ...\n <BACK_QUOTED_IDENTIFIER> ...\n <BRACKET_QUOTED_IDENTIFIER> ...\n <UNICODE_QUOTED_IDENTIFIER> ...\n \"INTERVAL\" \"YEAR\" ...\n \"INTERVAL\" \"MONTH\" ...\n \"INTERVAL\" \"DAY\" ...\n \"INTERVAL\" \"HOUR\" ...\n \"INTERVAL\" \"MINUTE\" ...\n \"INTERVAL\" \"SECOND\" ...\n ]"
]
Error: exception while executing query (state=,code=0)