Native NULL Support requires explicitly filtering the records
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Description
While Pinot does support storing NULLs natively, users are still expected to filter them out in the `where clause` when querying. It would be great to have the support for following:
- Filter out nulls using `CASE WHEN`, for example `sum(case when description is null then 1 else 0 end)`
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Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are identified. Start by tracing Pinot's SQL expression and aggregation handling for CASE WHEN with IS NULL, then locate existing NULL-semantics tests. Done means the example query executes and counts NULL values without requiring a WHERE filter, with regression coverage.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java, sql
- Domain
- databases
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100