variant_null() -> variant

Returns a null value of type variant.

This is important because some functions, like case(), return more convenient outputs if all their arguments are of the same type.

Domain

This is a scalar function (calculates a single output value for a single input row).

Categories

• Misc

Examples

make_col positive_or_null:case(x > 0, x, true, variant_null())

Create a column 'positive_or_null' which is either a positive number or null with type variant.