WL#1299: Add typeof() function
Affects: Server-7.1
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Status: Un-Assigned
Add the function, ie typeof() which would return the type information about the given argument. It is especially convenient for checking bug reports - good amount of bugs come from issues with type handling as well as wrong understanding of type conversion rules by user. It might be convenient for some automatic query generation programs as well Example: create table tbl(c char(20)); select typeof(c) from tbl1; Result: "char(20) null_allowed:yes,charset:latin1" The exact return format is to be defined. Information_schema is intended to implement this functionality for columns: SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS; However, it does not provide a way to fetch information about exrpessions, function resutls, constants, etc.
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