variant_null

Description

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.

Return type

variant

Domain

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

Categories

Usage

variant_null()

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.

Aliases

any_null (deprecated)