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[jira] [Assigned] (HIVE-29618) Vectorized LIKE Operator should match multi-line input (HIVE-22008 followup)

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Konstantin Bereznyakov reassigned HIVE-29618:
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    Assignee: Konstantin Bereznyakov

> Vectorized LIKE Operator should match multi-line input (HIVE-22008 followup)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-29618
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-29618
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Konstantin Bereznyakov
>            Assignee: Konstantin Bereznyakov
>            Priority: Major
>
>  h2. Description
>   The vectorized {{LIKE}} operator's {{ComplexChecker}} compiles its regex via {{Pattern.compile(pattern)}} without the {{Pattern.DOTALL}} flag. Patterns containing an unescaped {{_}} wildcard route
>   through this path. By Java {{Pattern}} default, {{.}} does not match {{\n}}, so the anchored regex {{^.*?<literal>.<literal>.*?$}} that the {{COMPLEX}} branch produces cannot consume newlines, and
>   multi-line inputs containing the literal substring are silently rejected. The bug is silent.
>   The non-vectorized counterpart {{UDFLike.evaluate}} ({{ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/udf/UDFLike.java:194}}) compiles the same regex via {{Pattern.compile(likePatternToRegExp(strLikePattern),
>    Pattern.DOTALL)}} and returns the correct answer. The asymmetry was introduced by HIVE-22008 ("LIKE Operator should match multi-line input", 2019-08-01), which added {{Pattern.DOTALL}} to
>   {{UDFLike}} only and did not update the parallel implementation in {{AbstractFilterStringColLikeStringScalar.ComplexChecker}}, created earlier by HIVE-4642 (2013-10-03). The regression test added by
>   HIVE-22008 ({{ql/src/test/queries/clientpositive/udf_like.q}}) does not enable vectorized execution, so the vectorized {{ComplexChecker}} path was never exercised by it.
>   Reproduced on Apache Hive master, commit {{1516fb91e8}} ({{pom.xml}} declares version {{4.3.0-SNAPSHOT}}).
>   h2. When does the bug fire?
>   All of the following co-occurring conditions are required:
>   * Vectorized execution is on (default).
>   * The {{LIKE}} pattern contains an unescaped {{_}} (single-char wildcard). This is the only path that reaches {{ComplexChecker}}; patterns without {{_}} route to non-regex {{NoneChecker}} /
>   {{BeginChecker}} / {{EndChecker}} / {{MiddleChecker}} / {{ChainedChecker}}, which are byte-substring searches and handle newlines correctly.
>   * The input string contains {{\n}} (or another line terminator that {{.}} does not match by default) outside the literal portion of the pattern; equivalently, the {{.*?}} segments of the produced
>   regex would need to consume a newline to satisfy {{^...$}}.
>   Removing any one condition masks the bug.
>   h2. Mechanism
>   The classifier {{AbstractFilterStringColLikeStringScalar.UDFLikePattern.matcher}} returns {{COMPLEX}} as soon as it sees an unescaped {{_}}. The {{COMPLEX}} branch builds its regex as:
>   {code:java}
>   "^" + UDFLike.likePatternToRegExp(pattern) + "$"
>   {code}
>   {{UDFLike.likePatternToRegExp}} translates {{_}} to {{.}}, {{%}} to {{.*?}}, and other characters to {{Pattern.quote}}-wrapped literals. For pattern {{%information_schema%}} the produced regex
>   (literals elided) is {{^.*?information.schema.*?$}}. {{ComplexChecker}} then compiles it at
>   {code:java}
>   compiledPattern = Pattern.compile(pattern);
>   {code}
>   The non-vectorized counterpart at {{ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/udf/UDFLike.java:194}} is:
>   {code:java}
>   p = Pattern.compile(likePatternToRegExp(strLikePattern), Pattern.DOTALL);
>   {code}
>   Without {{Pattern.DOTALL}}, {{.}} (and therefore {{.*?}}) does not match {{\n}}. The {{^...$}} anchors require the regex to consume the entire input, but {{.*?}} cannot cross newlines, so any
>   multi-line input containing the literal substring is silently rejected.
>   h2. Workaround
>   Escape the underscore so the pattern no longer reaches {{ComplexChecker}} (it routes through one of the byte-substring checkers instead):
>   {code:sql}
>   SELECT q LIKE '%information\_schema%' FROM t;
>   {code}
>   Or disable vectorized execution for the query:
>   {code:sql}
>   SET hive.vectorized.execution.enabled=false;
>   {code}
>   h2. Reproduction
>   {code:sql}
>   SET hive.fetch.task.conversion=none;
>   /* Materialization to ORC is required so the LIKE filter scans a vectorized
>      input. UNION ALL of literals plans as a UDTF and disables vectorization
>      on the map vertex; the materialized intermediate restores it. ORC is
>      required because the default TextFile format treats \n as a row
>      terminator and truncates multi-line strings. */
>   SET hive.default.fileformat=ORC;
>   SET hive.optimize.cte.materialize.threshold=1;
>   SET hive.optimize.cte.materialize.full.aggregate.only=false;
>   WITH t AS (
>               SELECT 1 AS rid, 'simple match information_schema only one line' AS q
>     UNION ALL SELECT 2 AS rid, concat('line one', chr(10), 'line two contains information_schema here', chr(10)) AS q
>     UNION ALL SELECT 3 AS rid, concat('prefix', chr(10), 'more', chr(10), 'stuff', chr(10), 'information_schema appears late') AS q
>     UNION ALL SELECT 4 AS rid, concat('information_schema is on the first line', chr(10), 'but there are more lines', chr(10), 'after it') AS q
>   )
>   SELECT rid,
>          CASE WHEN q LIKE '%information_schema%' THEN 'match' ELSE 'NO_MATCH' END AS result
>   FROM t
>   ORDER BY rid;
>   {code}
>   *Expected:* all four rows return {{match}}. Each row's {{q}} contains the literal substring {{information_schema}}, and {{%information_schema%}} matches that substring under SQL semantics (the
>   literal {{_}} satisfies the {{_}} single-char wildcard).
>   *Actual:*
>   {noformat}
>   1    match
>   2    NO_MATCH
>   3    NO_MATCH
>   4    NO_MATCH
>   {noformat}
>   Only row 1 (single-line) is matched. Rows 2, 3, and 4 each contain {{\n}} outside the {{information_schema}} run and are dropped. Running the same query with {{SET
>   hive.vectorized.execution.enabled=false}} returns all four rows.



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