Demonstrate unions can't be null #11314
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Demonstrates #11162 - union columns (and scalars) never match an
is null
check.This applies to both sparse and dense unions.
Similarly union columns alwasy match a
is not null
check.This is particularly problematic for
datafusion-functions-json
, where users will often want to usefield->'foo' is not null
, see datafusion-contrib/datafusion-functions-json#24.This is soon going to become problematic for us, hence working on it.
I'll add more details on #11162.