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[jira] [Created] (PHOENIX-1075) Mathematical order of operations are improperly evaluated.

Kyle Buzsaki created PHOENIX-1075:
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             Summary: Mathematical order of operations are improperly evaluated.
                 Key: PHOENIX-1075
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-1075
             Project: Phoenix
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: Kyle Buzsaki


The root of the issue is that, as things are now, multiplication and division don't actually have the same precedence in the grammar. Division is always grouped more tightly than multiplication and is evaluated first. Most of the time, this doesn't matter, but combined with the truncating integer division used by LongDivideExpression it produces some unexpected and probably wrong behavior. Below is an example:

Expression: 6 * 4 / 3
Evaluating left to right, this should reduce as follows:
6 * 4 / 3 
24 / 3
8

As phoenix is now, division has a higher precedence than multiplication. Therefore, the resulting expression tree looks like this:

!http://i.imgur.com/2Zzsfpy.png!

Because integer division in truncating, when the division evaluates the expression tree looks like this:

!http://i.imgur.com/3cLGD0e.png!

Which then evaluates to 6.



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