feat(expr): support user-defined CAST
and TRY_CAST
#6663
Merged
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Summary
CAST
andTRY_CAST
CAST
will abort the execution and throw an error,TRY_CAST
will just silently replace that single scalar with NULL.TRY_CAST
will wrap its dest type into nullable. For example, the return type ofTRY_CAST(a AS Int8)
isInt8 NULL
, and the return type ofTRY_CAST(a AS Array(Int8))
isArray(Int8 NULL) NULL
.Tracked in #6547