Remove redundant cast.
As C-style casts with a type name in parantheses are interpreted as static_casts this literally just changes the interpretation around (and forces an implicit cast to match the return value of the function).
Switch UBIGINTNULL and UBIGINTEMPTYROW constants for consistency.
Make consistent with relation between BIGINTNULL and BIGINTEMPTYROW & make adapted cast behaviour due to NULL markers more intuitive. (After this change we can simply block the highest possible uint64_t value and if a cast results in it, print the next lower value (2^64 - 2). Previously, (2^64 - 1) was able to be printed, but (2^64 - 2) as being blocked by the UBIGINTNULL constant was not, making finding the appropiate replacement value to give out more confusing.
Introduce MAX_MCS_UBIGINT and MIN_MCS_BIGINT and adapt casts.
Adapt casting to BIGINT to remove NULL marker error.
Add bugfix regression test for MCOL 4632
Add regression test for mcol_4648
Revert "Switch UBIGINTNULL and UBIGINTEMPTYROW constants for consistency."
This reverts commit 83eac11b18937ecb0b4c754dd48e4cb47310f620.
Due to backwards compatability issues.
Refactor casting to MCS[U]Int to datatype functions.
Update regression tests to include other affected datatypes.
Apply formatting.
Refactor according to PR review
Remove redundant new constant, switch to using already existing constant.
Adapt nullstring casting to EMPTYROW markers for backwards compatability.
Adapt tests for backward compatability behaviour allowing text datatypes to be casted to EMPTYROW constant.
Adapt mcol641-functions test according to bug fix.
Update tests according to new expected behaviour.
Adapt tests to new understanding of issue.
Update comments/documentation for MCOL_4632 test.
Adapt to new cast limit logic.
Make bracketing consistent.
Adapt previous regression test to new expected behaviour.
This patch improves handling of NULLs in textual fields in ColumnStore.
Previously empty strings were considered NULLs and it could be a problem
if data scheme allows for empty strings. It was also one of major
reasons of behavior difference between ColumnStore and other engines in
MariaDB family.
Also, this patch fixes some other bugs and incorrect behavior, for
example, incorrect comparison for "column <= ''" which evaluates to
constant True for all purposes before this patch.
