[DRILL-2668] CAST to FLOAT with numeric literal yields DOUBLE

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: Functions - Drill
• Assignee: Chun Chang
• Reporter: Daniel Barclay
• Created: 02/Apr/15 20:42
• Updated: 28/Apr/15 21:35
• Resolved: 13/Apr/15 20:12

Description

Casting a numeric literal to FLOAT results in type DOUBLE rather than type FLOAT.

Currently (before DRILL-2613 is fixed), querying for "CAST (1.1 AS FLOAT)" and reading the value using ResultSet.getFloat(...) yields an error about not allowed to use getFloat(...) for a FLOAT8 vector.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: DRILL-2613 Implement ResultSet.getXxx(...) number-to-number data conversions