[tarantool-patches] Re: [PATCH 2/2] sql: don't change type of function's retval after codegen

[Vladislav Shpilevoy <v.shpilevoy@tarantool.org>]

Thanks for the patch!

On 11/03/2019 21:10, Nikita Pettik wrote:
> Proper type of function's returning value is set during names resolution
> (i.e. promotion from struct FuncDef to struct Expr, see
> resolveExprStep()). Accidentally, it was set again during byte-code
> generation for VDBE. What is more, in some cases it was set to a wrong
> type. For instance, built-in function randomblob() returns value to be
> encoded as MP_BIN, so its returning type is SCALAR. However, it was
> reset to INTEGER (as its first argument). This patch simply removes this
> second type promotion.
> ---
>   src/box/sql/expr.c       | 11 -----------
>   test/sql/iproto.result   | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   test/sql/iproto.test.lua | 15 +++++++++++++++
>   3 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/test/sql/iproto.result b/test/sql/iproto.result
> index 3a77c8e93..26d55b60c 100644
> --- a/test/sql/iproto.result
> +++ b/test/sql/iproto.result
> +-- Type set during compilation stage, and since min/max are accept
> +-- arguments of all scalar type, we can't say nothing more than
> +-- SCALAR.
> +--
> +cn:execute("SELECT min(1, 2, 3);")
> +---
> +- metadata:
> +  - name: min(1, 2, 3)
> +    type: scalar

This is the case, when a first argument type would be ok. As I
understand, it is illegal to calculate min of multiple different
types, so its rettype should be equal to its first argument. It
is not?

> +  rows:
> +  - [1]
> +...