Derby-573 Optmier overrides - joinOrder and joinStrategy

[Mamta Satoor <ms...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

One of optimizer overrides, that a user can specify, is joinStrategy. The
functional spec for joinStrategy says following "The joinStrategy property
can be used only within a TableExpression, *but it must be used in
conjunction with the joinOrder property. Do not let the optimizer choose the
join order.*"

When I wrote the functional spec, I got this piece of information from old
Cloudscape release documentation, where the optimizer overrides were
available in a non-portable syntax. I also got some of the test cases from
that old Cloudscape release and one of the test cases is as follows
*SELECT * FROM t1 a, t1 b --DERBY-PROPERTIES joinStrategy=nestedloop
WHERE a.c1=b.c1*
As you can see, the example above doesn't specify joinOrder override along
with joinStrategy. Should Derby (in its code) make it mandatory that
joinStrategy can't be specified w/o joinOrder? If not, then should the
functional spec be changed? What happens if user doesn't specify joinOrder
along with joinStrategy? Will joinStrategy be ignored. I haven't had a
chance to investigate this yet. I only stumbled on it last night when I was
reviewing Eric's hardwork on getting this feature documented and noticed
that the example for joinStrategy didn't include joinOrder.

thanks,
Mamta