[jira] [Created] (SPARK-23973) Remove consecutive sorts

["Henry Robinson (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Henry Robinson created SPARK-23973:
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             Summary: Remove consecutive sorts
                 Key: SPARK-23973
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-23973
             Project: Spark
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: SQL
    Affects Versions: 2.4.0
            Reporter: Henry Robinson


As a follow-on from SPARK-23375, it would be easy to remove redundant sorts in the following kind of query:

{code}
Seq((1), (3)).toDF("int").orderBy('int.asc).orderBy('int.desc).explain()

== Physical Plan ==
*(2) Sort [int#35 DESC NULLS LAST], true, 0
+- Exchange rangepartitioning(int#35 DESC NULLS LAST, 200)
   +- *(1) Sort [int#35 ASC NULLS FIRST], true, 0
      +- Exchange rangepartitioning(int#35 ASC NULLS FIRST, 200)
         +- LocalTableScan [int#35]
{code}

There's no need to perform {{(1) Sort}}. Since the sort operator isn't stable, AFAIK, it should be ok to remove a sort on any column that gets 'overwritten' by a subsequent one in this way. 



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