Date: 2019-04-13 22:58:28 +0200
From: @mlkersten
To: MonetDB5 devs <>
Version: 11.31.13 (Aug2018-SP2)

Last updated: 2019-04-30 12:36:03 +0200

Comment 26951

Date: 2019-04-13 22:58:28 +0200
From: @mlkersten

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:66.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/66.0
Build Identifier:

Recognize the BAT type coercion to simplify re-execution of MAL explain plans.
flag it as error if incompatible with definition
function user.s4_1():void;
X_111:bat[:lng] := bat.new(nil:lng);
(X_115:bat[:lng], X_116:bat[:oid], X_117:bat[:oid]) := algebra.sort(X_111:bat[:lng], false:bit, false:bit, false:bit);
end user.s4_1;

Reproducible: Always

Comment 26952

Date: 2019-04-14 08:30:37 +0200
From: MonetDB Mercurial Repository <>

Changeset 537dd6e93167 made by Martin Kersten mk@cwi.nl in the MonetDB repo, refers to this bug.

For complete details, see https//devmonetdborg/hg/MonetDB?cmd=changeset;node=537dd6e93167

Changeset description:

Add test case for bug #6696

Comment 26953

Date: 2019-04-14 22:30:57 +0200
From: @mlkersten

Issue solved by extending the MAL parser