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MySQL: support POINT data type

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#4,094 opened on Aug 25, 2019

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Description

Currently when querying a POINT data type it will fail, because MySQL returns a binary encoded value.

Ideally Redash would decode the POINT components (x,y) and return those, but I couldn't find an obvious way in Python to do this conversion.

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Research direction
Investigate MySQL binary format for POINT and implement decoding of X and Y coordinates in Python.
Tech stack
pythonmysql
Domain
backenddatabase
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Bug
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3
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1-3 hours
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Clear
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PythonMySQL
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60