This change fixes:
MCOL-4462 CAST(varchar_expr AS DECIMAL(M,N)) returns a wrong result
MCOL-4500 Bit functions processing throws internally trying to cast char into decimal representation
MCOL-4532 CAST(AS DECIMAL) returns a garbage for large values
Also, this change makes string-to-decimal conversion 5-10 times faster,
depending on exact data.
Performance implemenent is achieved by the fact that (unlike in the old
implementation), the new version does not do any "string" object copying.
CI with RelWithDebInfo builds revealed a problem in the main
patch for MCOL-4464, which did not show up with Debug builds.
Methods like:
- getDoubleVal()
- getDateIntVal()
- getDatetimeIntVal()
- getTimestampIntVal()
- getTimeIntVal()
- getUintVal()
- getIntVal()
- getStrVal()
require the caller to initialize the isNull argument to false.
This fact was not taken into account in MCOL-4464.
Adding proper initializations.
For the initial BLOB/TEXT pull request we put them in the same bucket as
VARBINARY, forcing many functions to be disabled. This patch enables the
same TEXT function support as VARCHAR.
