fix expression plan type inference to correctly handle complex types #12857
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Description
Fixes
ExpressionPlan.inferColumnCapabilities
, which is used by nativeExpressionVirtualColumn
to infer the output type from the input row signature, and can play a role in determining the output row signature of a query to correctly handleCOMPLEX
typed expressions (added in #11853). This bug could cause incorrect behavior due to this method making defaultSTRING
typed capabilities, causing incorrect selectors to be chosen, which for json columns whose in process values are things like javaMap
to effectively be callingtoString
on everything, which for something likeJSON_OBJECT(KEY 'a' VALUE 'A', KEY 'b' VALUE 1)
would end up with the values as strings appearing like'{a=A, b=1}'
instead of actual JSON{"a":"A", "b":1}
.The fix is just to add a short circuit for
COMPLEX
types so that the default string capabilities are not used.This PR has: