We have had support for COUNTER columns for quite some time now, but some functionality was left unimplemented - various internal and CQL functions resulted in "unimplemented" messages when used, and the goal of this series is to fix those issues. The primary goal was to add the missing support for CASTing counters to other types in CQL (issue #14501), but we also add the missing CQL `counterasblob()` and `blobascounter()` functions (issue #14742).
As usual, the series includes extensive functional tests for these features, and one pre-existing test for CAST that used to fail now begins to pass.
Fixes#14501Fixes#14742Closes#14745
* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
test/cql-pytest: test confirming that casting to counter doesn't work
cql: support casting of counter to other types
cql: implement missing counterasblob() and blobascounter() functions
cql: implement missing type functions for "counters" type
(cherry picked from commit a637ddd09c)
Small modification was needed to validate_visitor API for the patch to
apply.
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