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package com.hazelcast.org.apache.calcite.sql;
/**
* SqlNullSemantics defines the possible com.hazelcast.com.arison rules for values which might
* be null. In SQL (and internal plans used to process SQL) different rules are
* used depending on the context.
*/
public enum SqlNullSemantics {
/**
* Predicate semantics: e.g. in the expression (WHERE X=5), if X is NULL,
* the com.hazelcast.com.arison result is unknown, and so a filter used to evaluate the
* WHERE clause rejects the row.
*/
NULL_MATCHES_NOTHING,
/**
* GROUP BY key semantics: e.g. in the expression (GROUP BY A,B), the key
* (null,5) is treated as equal to another key (null,5).
*/
NULL_MATCHES_NULL,
/**
* Wildcard semantics: logically, this is not present in any SQL construct.
* However, it is required internally, for example to rewrite NOT IN to NOT
* EXISTS; when we negate a predicate, we invert the null semantics, so
* NULL_MATCHES_NOTHING must become NULL_MATCHES_ANYTHING.
*/
NULL_MATCHES_ANYTHING
}