[12.x] allow string-based expressions for selectExpression()#58753
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So in 12.48.0 I contributed a way to make using SQL functions easier (after some stuff had to be reverted):
but this is still a lot of boilerplate as you must create a new expression object. And that object is really not needed as the method already defines that you pass expressions. So with this PR, any query builder code can be simplified to this:
That's much simpler code. And in a real example, it looks also more cleanly:
No more expressions needed :)
This PR is fully backwards compatible.