spark-instrumented-optimizer/sql/catalyst
Linhong Liu 2f700773c2 [SPARK-36224][SQL] Use Void as the type name of NullType
### What changes were proposed in this pull request?
Change the `NullType.simpleString` to "void" to set "void" as the formal type name of `NullType`

### Why are the changes needed?
This PR is intended to address the type name discussion in PR #28833. Here are the reasons:
1. The type name of NullType is displayed everywhere, e.g. schema string, error message, document. Hence it's not possible to hide it from users, we have to choose a proper name
2. The "void" is widely used as the type name of "NULL", e.g. Hive, pgSQL
3. Changing to "void" can enable the round trip of `toDDL`/`fromDDL` for NullType. (i.e. make `from_json(col, schema.toDDL)`) work

### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
Yes, the type name of "NULL" is changed from "null" to "void". for example:
```
scala> sql("select null as a, 1 as b").schema.catalogString
res5: String = struct<a:void,b:int>
```

### How was this patch tested?
existing test cases

Closes #33437 from linhongliu-db/SPARK-36224-void-type-name.

Authored-by: Linhong Liu <linhong.liu@databricks.com>
Signed-off-by: Wenchen Fan <wenchen@databricks.com>
2021-08-02 23:19:54 +08:00
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benchmarks [SPARK-34950][TESTS] Update benchmark results to the ones created by GitHub Actions machines 2021-04-03 23:02:56 +03:00
src [SPARK-36224][SQL] Use Void as the type name of NullType 2021-08-02 23:19:54 +08:00
pom.xml [SPARK-35996][BUILD] Setting version to 3.3.0-SNAPSHOT 2021-07-02 13:47:36 -07:00