[GitHub] [pinot] Jackie-Jiang commented on a change in pull request #8228: Early terminate orderby when columns already sorted

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Jackie-Jiang commented on a change in pull request #8228:
URL: https://github.com/apache/pinot/pull/8228#discussion_r810422360



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File path: pinot-core/src/main/java/org/apache/pinot/core/operator/query/SelectionOrderByOperator.java
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@@ -117,6 +119,30 @@ public String toExplainString() {
     return stringBuilder.append(')').toString();
   }
 
+  private void pruneOrderByColumns() {
+    // Order by col1, col2 limit k will take all the n matching rows
+    // and add it to a priority queue of size k.
+    // This is nlogk operation which can be quite expensive for a large n.
+    // This function, prunes out any order by clause that matches columns sorting order.
+    // In the above example, if the docs are already sorted by col1, col2 then there is no need for any
+    // sorting at all (only limit is needed). When only col1 is sorted, then we need to use only col2 for ordering.

Review comment:
       I don't follow the logic here. Say col1 is sorted, col2 is not. If we apply this logic, will the final result only order on col2?




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