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From: Konstantin Osipov <kostja@tarantool.org>
To: tarantool-patches@freelists.org
Cc: v.shpilevoy@tarantool.org, Nikita Pettik <korablev@tarantool.org>
Subject: [tarantool-patches] Re: [PATCH 4/4] sql: replace BLOB as column type with SCALAR
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 16:40:39 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190307134039.GF24636@chai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83426c95235d880a4d16ca84927138961caf3c55.1551964360.git.korablev@tarantool.org>

* Nikita Pettik <korablev@tarantool.org> [19/03/07 16:18]:
> BLOB column type is represented by SCALAR field type in terms of NoSQL.
> We attempted at emulating BLOB behaviour, but such efforts turn out to
> be not decent enough. For this reason, we've decided to abandon these
> attempts and fairly replace it with SCALAR column type.  SCALAR column
> type acts in the same way as it does in NoSQL: it is aggregator-type for
> INTEGER, NUMBER and STRING types. So, column declared with this type can
> contain values of these three (available in SQL) types. It is worth
> mentioning that CAST operator in this case does nothing.
> 

Shouldn't we keep the BLOB keyword in the list of reserved words?

The same applies to DATE/TIME and other words which are reserved
in SQL standard.

The patch itself LGTM.


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  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-07 13:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-07 13:14 [tarantool-patches] [PATCH 0/4] SQL types changes Nikita Pettik
2019-03-07 13:14 ` [tarantool-patches] [PATCH 1/4] sql: remove support of DATE/TIME from parser Nikita Pettik
2019-03-07 13:34   ` [tarantool-patches] " Konstantin Osipov
2019-03-07 13:14 ` [tarantool-patches] [PATCH 2/4] sql: remove support of CHAR type " Nikita Pettik
2019-03-07 13:35   ` [tarantool-patches] " Konstantin Osipov
2019-03-07 13:14 ` [tarantool-patches] [PATCH 3/4] sql: remove support of NUMERIC " Nikita Pettik
2019-03-07 13:36   ` [tarantool-patches] " Konstantin Osipov
2019-03-07 13:14 ` [tarantool-patches] [PATCH 4/4] sql: replace BLOB as column type with SCALAR Nikita Pettik
2019-03-07 13:40   ` Konstantin Osipov [this message]
2019-03-07 14:00     ` [tarantool-patches] " n.pettik
2019-03-07 14:14 ` [tarantool-patches] Re: [PATCH 0/4] SQL types changes Kirill Yukhin

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