[jira] [Resolved] (CALCITE-481) Add "Spool" operator, to allow re-use of relational expressions

["Julian Hyde (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Julian Hyde resolved CALCITE-481.
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       Resolution: Fixed
    Fix Version/s: 1.21.0

[~rubenql], I'm going to mark this case fixed. We can re-open, or create a new case, if we have use cases where the operator you added in CALCITE-2812 is not sufficient.

> Add "Spool" operator, to allow re-use of relational expressions
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>                 Key: CALCITE-481
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-481
>             Project: Calcite
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Julian Hyde
>            Assignee: Jesus Camacho Rodriguez
>            Priority: Major
>             Fix For: 1.21.0
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> If a sub-tree occurs more than once in a query an efficient plan would probably evaluate once and have two readers read the same data. We propose a "Spool" relational expression for this purpose.
> Spool would have one input, the expression that populates it.
> In the VolcanoPlanner, any RelNode can already have multiple consumers (each of which sees the same row type and the same data) but an optimal plan does not typically include multiple uses of the same node, so most implementors (e.g. EnumerableRelImplementor) would just not notice, and generate the same code twice. Having an explicit Spool would alert the implementor to re-use the result.
> We do not prescribe a mechanism for implementing Spool as a physical operator. A job that populates a temporary table is one possible mechanism.
> As part of this case, we should implement Spool in Enumerable convention, and use it to evaluate some test queries.
> The other reason to implement Spool is costing. The cost of a Spool with N consumers is typically something like A + B . N. A, the fixed cost, is significantly larger than B, the re-play cost.
> Volcano's dynamic programming model does not make it easy to account for re-use. There are approaches in academia based on integer linear programming; see e.g. http://www.slideshare.net/INRIA-OAK/plreuse and https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01353891/document.



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