GitHub user DaveBirdsall opened a pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/incubator-trafodion/pull/1012

    [TRAFODION-2537] Add file_desc to salted secondary indexes indexes_desc

    The problem was a query on a large table with a salted index chose a serial 
plan when a parallel plan on the salted index would have been superior.
    
    The cause was a bit of missing logic. Function createNAFileSets 
(optimizer/NATable.cpp) relies on the presence of a files descriptor in the 
indexes descriptor to deduce that an index is salted. The code that generates 
these descriptors, Generator::createVirtualTableDesc (generator/Generator.cpp) 
however only creates a files descriptor for the clustering key or primary key 
indexes descriptor. So, the fix was to add logic to 
Generator::createVirtualTableDesc to create a files descriptor when a secondary 
index is salted.
    
    Note that the only form of salting supported on indexes today is SALT LIKE 
TABLE. If in the future we add support for salting an index on a different set 
of columns and a different set of partitions than the table, many additional 
changes will be needed.
    
    Two regression tests show changes in plan as a result of this change. In 
both cases, index scans that formerly were serial are now parallel. (Note: The 
one plan change for seabase/EXPECTED010 is near the bottom.) 
    
    See the JIRA for a discussion of the performance implications of this 
change.

You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running:

    $ git pull https://github.com/DaveBirdsall/incubator-trafodion Trafodion2537

Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:

    https://github.com/apache/incubator-trafodion/pull/1012.patch

To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch
with (at least) the following in the commit message:

    This closes #1012
    
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commit e5e1356bf1ea70ee4b23d4e921a218f40cdf8577
Author: Dave Birdsall <[email protected]>
Date:   2017-03-15T20:42:58Z

    [TRAFODION-2537] Add file_desc to salted secondary indexes indexes_desc

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