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+-- Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
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+-- to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+-- "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+-- with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+--
+--   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+--
+-- Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+-- software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+-- "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+-- KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+-- specific language governing permissions and limitations
+-- under the License.
+
+-- Confirms Comet falls back to Spark when a parquet scan's schema contains a
+-- VariantType column. VariantType is a Spark 4.0+ data type that Comet does
+-- not currently support, so any scan exposing it must be executed by Spark.
+
+-- MinSparkVersion: 4.0
+
+statement
+CREATE TABLE test_variant(id INT, v VARIANT) USING parquet
+
+statement
+INSERT INTO test_variant VALUES
+  (1, parse_json('{"a": 1, "b": "hello"}')),
+  (2, parse_json('{"a": 2, "b": "world"}')),
+  (3, parse_json('null')),
+  (4, NULL)
+
+query expect_fallback(Unsupported v of type VariantType)
+SELECT id, v FROM test_variant ORDER BY id
+
+query expect_fallback(Unsupported v of type VariantType)
+SELECT variant_get(v, '$.a', 'int') AS a FROM test_variant ORDER BY id
+
+query expect_fallback(Unsupported v of type VariantType)
+SELECT id FROM test_variant WHERE variant_get(v, '$.a', 'int') = 1
+
+query expect_fallback(Unsupported v of type VariantType)
+SELECT COUNT(*) FROM test_variant WHERE v IS NOT NULL
+
+statement
+CREATE TABLE test_variant_struct(id INT, s STRUCT<v: VARIANT>) USING parquet
+
+statement
+INSERT INTO test_variant_struct VALUES
+  (1, named_struct('v', parse_json('{"x": 10}'))),
+  (2, named_struct('v', parse_json('{"x": 20}')))
+
+query expect_fallback(Unsupported v of type VariantType)
+SELECT id, s FROM test_variant_struct ORDER BY id