rohityadav1993 commented on code in PR #19120:
URL: https://github.com/apache/pinot/pull/19120#discussion_r4044526362


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pinot-core/src/main/java/org/apache/pinot/core/plan/SelectionPlanNode.java:
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@@ -88,11 +89,36 @@ public Operator<SelectionResultsBlock> run() {
         maxDocsPerCall = Math.min(limit + _queryContext.getOffset(), 
DocIdSetPlanNode.MAX_DOC_PER_CALL);
       }
 
-      BaseProjectOperator<?> projectOperator = getSortedByProject(expressions, 
maxDocsPerCall, orderByExpressions);
       boolean asc = orderByExpressions.get(0).isAsc();
       // Remember that we cannot use asc == projectOperator.isAscending() 
because empty operators are considered
       // both ascending and descending
       DocIdOrderedOperator.DocIdOrder queryOrder = 
DocIdOrderedOperator.DocIdOrder.fromAsc(asc);
+
+      // Opt-in streaming path: emit one globally-sorted block at a time so a 
downstream k-way-merge combine can pull
+      // lazily. Only build it when the first order-by column is an identifier 
(kept consistent with the combine-side
+      // gate) and the forward-scan project is order-compatible; the 
DESC-incompatible sorted case still falls back to
+      // the materialized SelectionPartiallyOrderedByDescOperation below so 
global order stays correct.
+      if (_queryContext.isSortedSelectionMergeEnabled()
+          && orderByExpressions.get(0).getExpression().getType() == 
ExpressionContext.Type.IDENTIFIER) {
+        // When there are non-order-by output expressions, only fetch the 
order-by expressions during the forward scan
+        // (the streaming operator fetches the rest in a second pass); 
otherwise fetch all expressions.
+        List<ExpressionContext> projectExpressions = expressions;
+        if (expressions.size() > numOrderByExpressions) {
+          projectExpressions = new ArrayList<>(numOrderByExpressions);
+          for (OrderByExpressionContext orderByExpression : 
orderByExpressions) {
+            projectExpressions.add(orderByExpression.getExpression());
+          }
+        }
+        BaseProjectOperator<?> streamingProjectOperator =
+            getSortedByProject(projectExpressions, maxDocsPerCall, 
orderByExpressions);
+        if (streamingProjectOperator.isCompatibleWith(queryOrder)) {
+          return new StreamingSelectionOrderByOperator(_indexSegment, 
_queryContext, expressions,
+              streamingProjectOperator, sortedColumnsPrefixSize);
+        }
+        // DESC-incompatible: fall through to the materialized fallback 
(rebuilds the project over all expressions).

Review Comment:
   Only the duplicate build is fixed in f3f2db3 - the leak is not. The DESC 
fall-through now reuses streamingProjectOperator when it already covers the 
full expression list; the wider order-by-prefix case still builds a second one.
   
   On the leak: ProjectPlanNode#run already has a pre-existing "TODO: figure 
out a way to close this operator" covering every call site in the module, so a 
narrow fix here would not actually close it - left as-is.
   
   Tests: testDescIncompatibleFallbackBuildsTheProjectOnce (counts data source 
lookups, 4 vs 3 baseline) and 
testDescIncompatibleFallbackMatchesTheMaterializedPlan (pins schema/rows across 
reuse, wider-rebuild, zero-match cases).
   
   [addressed by agent]
   



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pinot-core/src/main/java/org/apache/pinot/core/operator/query/StreamingSelectionOrderByOperator.java:
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@@ -0,0 +1,514 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.pinot.core.operator.query;
+
+import com.google.common.base.CaseFormat;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.Comparator;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.HashSet;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.PriorityQueue;
+import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+import javax.annotation.Nullable;
+import org.apache.pinot.common.request.context.ExpressionContext;
+import org.apache.pinot.common.request.context.OrderByExpressionContext;
+import org.apache.pinot.common.utils.DataSchema;
+import org.apache.pinot.core.common.BlockValSet;
+import org.apache.pinot.core.common.Operator;
+import org.apache.pinot.core.common.RowBasedBlockValueFetcher;
+import org.apache.pinot.core.operator.BaseOperator;
+import org.apache.pinot.core.operator.BaseProjectOperator;
+import org.apache.pinot.core.operator.BitmapDocIdSetOperator;
+import org.apache.pinot.core.operator.ColumnContext;
+import org.apache.pinot.core.operator.ExecutionStatistics;
+import org.apache.pinot.core.operator.ExplainAttributeBuilder;
+import org.apache.pinot.core.operator.ProjectionOperator;
+import org.apache.pinot.core.operator.ProjectionOperatorUtils;
+import org.apache.pinot.core.operator.blocks.ValueBlock;
+import org.apache.pinot.core.operator.blocks.results.SelectionResultsBlock;
+import org.apache.pinot.core.operator.transform.TransformOperator;
+import org.apache.pinot.core.query.request.context.QueryContext;
+import org.apache.pinot.core.query.selection.SelectionOperatorUtils;
+import org.apache.pinot.core.query.utils.OrderByComparatorFactory;
+import org.apache.pinot.segment.spi.IndexSegment;
+import org.apache.pinot.segment.spi.datasource.DataSource;
+import org.apache.pinot.spi.query.QueryScanCostContext;
+import org.roaringbitmap.RoaringBitmap;
+
+
+/// Lazy, incremental selection ORDER BY operator for segments that are 
physically sorted on the first order-by column.
+///
+/// Unlike {@link SelectionOrderByOperator} (which materializes the segment's 
whole top-K in a single block) this
+/// operator emits one globally-sorted {@link SelectionResultsBlock} per 
{@link #getNextBlock()} call and returns
+/// {@code null} when the segment is exhausted, so that a downstream 
k-way-merge combine operator can pull from many
+/// segments lazily and stop early. It relies on the underlying project 
operator iterating the first order-by column in
+/// the query order (the caller must guarantee {@code 
projectOperator.isCompatibleWith(DocIdOrder.fromAsc(asc))}).
+///
+/// It runs in one of two emission modes:
+///
+/// - **No tail to sort** ({@code numSortedExpressions == 
numOrderByExpressions}, e.g. {@code ORDER BY sorted}):
+///   rows already arrive from the project operator in final order, so each 
call emits the next project block
+///   (trimmed to the remaining {@code limit + offset} budget).
+/// - **Tail to sort** ({@code numSortedExpressions < numOrderByExpressions}, 
e.g.
+///   {@code ORDER BY sorted, other}):
+///   each call reads forward until the first order-by value changes (a 
primary-value "run"), retains the run's top
+///   {@code limit + offset} rows by the full comparator, and emits them 
sorted. This bounds the in-memory run buffer to
+///   {@code limit + offset} rows even when the first order-by column is 
near-constant (very low cardinality).
+///
+/// Like {@link SelectionOrderByOperator} it preserves the two-phase 
projection optimization: when there are output
+/// expressions that are not order-by expressions, the forward scan only 
fetches the order-by expressions plus the
+/// document id, and the non-order-by expressions are fetched in a second pass 
over the retained document ids of each
+/// emitted block.
+///
+/// This operator is stateful across {@link #getNextBlock()} calls and is 
**not** thread-safe; a single consumer
+/// must drive it.
+public class StreamingSelectionOrderByOperator extends 
BaseOperator<SelectionResultsBlock> {
+  private static final String EXPLAIN_NAME = "SELECT_ORDERBY_STREAMING";
+
+  private final IndexSegment _indexSegment;
+  private final QueryContext _queryContext;
+  private final boolean _nullHandlingEnabled;
+  /// Deduped order-by expressions followed by output expressions from 
SelectionOperatorUtils.extractExpressions()
+  private final List<ExpressionContext> _expressions;
+  private final BaseProjectOperator<?> _projectOperator;
+  private final List<OrderByExpressionContext> _orderByExpressions;
+  private final ColumnContext[] _orderByColumnContexts;
+  private final int _numExpressions;
+  private final int _numOrderByExpressions;
+  private final int _numRowsToKeep;
+  /// Whether there are output expressions that are not order-by expressions 
(requires the two-phase fetch)
+  private final boolean _twoPhase;
+  /// Whether the order-by has an unsorted tail that must be sorted in memory 
per run
+  private final boolean _tailToSort;
+  /// Expressions fetched during the forward scan: order-by expressions only 
when two-phase, otherwise all expressions
+  private final List<ExpressionContext> _phase1Expressions;
+  private final int _numPhase1Columns;
+  private final Comparator<Object[]> _comparator;
+  /// Compares only the first order-by column; used to detect primary-value 
run boundaries
+  private final Comparator<Object[]> _primaryComparator;
+  /// Pre-allocated run heap (cleared and reused each nextRun() call to avoid 
per-run allocation)
+  private final Comparator<Object[]> _reversedComparator;
+  private final PriorityQueue<Object[]> _runHeap;
+
+  // Pre-computed invariants for the two-phase fetch (null when single-phase)
+  private final List<ExpressionContext> _nonOrderByExpressions;
+  private final Map<String, DataSource> _phase2DataSourceMap;
+  private final int _phase2NumColumns;
+
+  /// Lazily built and cached; for two-phase it requires the transform 
operator's result column contexts
+  private DataSchema _dataSchema;
+
+  // Forward-scan cursor state (used by the tail-to-sort mode)
+  private ValueBlock _currentBlock;
+  private RowBasedBlockValueFetcher _currentFetcher;
+  private int[] _currentDocIds;
+  private RoaringBitmap[] _currentNullBitmaps;
+  private int _currentNumDocs;
+  private int _currentPos;
+  /// One-row lookahead: the first row of the next run, stashed when a run 
boundary is crossed
+  private Object[] _pendingRow;
+  private boolean _projectExhausted;
+
+  private boolean _exhausted;
+  private int _numRowsEmitted;
+  private int _numDocsScanned = 0;
+  private long _numEntriesScannedPostFilter = 0;
+
+  public StreamingSelectionOrderByOperator(IndexSegment indexSegment, 
QueryContext queryContext,
+      List<ExpressionContext> expressions, BaseProjectOperator<?> 
projectOperator, int numSortedExpressions) {
+    _indexSegment = indexSegment;
+    _queryContext = queryContext;
+    _nullHandlingEnabled = queryContext.isNullHandlingEnabled();
+    _expressions = expressions;
+    _projectOperator = projectOperator;
+
+    _orderByExpressions = queryContext.getOrderByExpressions();
+    assert _orderByExpressions != null;
+    _numExpressions = expressions.size();
+    _numOrderByExpressions = _orderByExpressions.size();
+    _orderByColumnContexts = new ColumnContext[_numOrderByExpressions];
+    for (int i = 0; i < _numOrderByExpressions; i++) {
+      ExpressionContext expression = 
_orderByExpressions.get(i).getExpression();
+      _orderByColumnContexts[i] = 
_projectOperator.getResultColumnContext(expression);
+    }
+
+    _numRowsToKeep = queryContext.getOffset() + queryContext.getLimit();
+    _twoPhase = _numExpressions > _numOrderByExpressions;
+    _tailToSort = numSortedExpressions < _numOrderByExpressions;
+    _comparator =
+        OrderByComparatorFactory.getComparator(_orderByExpressions, 
_orderByColumnContexts, _nullHandlingEnabled);
+    // The first order-by column is the physically sorted column, so it never 
contains nulls on this path; comparing
+    // only index 0 is enough to detect when one primary-value run ends and 
the next begins.
+    _primaryComparator =
+        OrderByComparatorFactory.getComparator(_orderByExpressions, 
_orderByColumnContexts, _nullHandlingEnabled, 0, 1);
+    _reversedComparator = _comparator.reversed();
+    _runHeap = new PriorityQueue<>(
+        Math.min(_numRowsToKeep, 
SelectionOperatorUtils.MAX_ROW_HOLDER_INITIAL_CAPACITY), _reversedComparator);
+
+    if (_twoPhase) {
+      _phase1Expressions = new ArrayList<>(_numOrderByExpressions);
+      for (OrderByExpressionContext orderByExpression : _orderByExpressions) {
+        _phase1Expressions.add(orderByExpression.getExpression());
+      }
+      _nonOrderByExpressions = _expressions.subList(_numOrderByExpressions, 
_numExpressions);
+      Set<String> columns = new HashSet<>();
+      for (ExpressionContext expressionContext : _nonOrderByExpressions) {
+        expressionContext.getColumns(columns);
+      }
+      _phase2NumColumns = columns.size();
+      _phase2DataSourceMap = new HashMap<>();
+      for (String column : columns) {
+        _phase2DataSourceMap.put(column, _indexSegment.getDataSource(column, 
_queryContext.getSchema()));
+      }
+    } else {
+      _phase1Expressions = _expressions;
+      _nonOrderByExpressions = null;
+      _phase2NumColumns = 0;
+      _phase2DataSourceMap = null;
+      // Single-phase: all output expressions are order-by expressions, so 
their types are known up front.
+      _dataSchema = buildSinglePhaseDataSchema();
+    }
+    _numPhase1Columns = _phase1Expressions.size();
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  protected SelectionResultsBlock getNextBlock() {
+    if (_exhausted) {
+      return null;
+    }
+    List<Object[]> rows = _tailToSort ? nextRun() : nextSortedRows();
+    if (rows == null || rows.isEmpty()) {
+      _exhausted = true;
+      return null;
+    }
+    if (_twoPhase) {
+      fetchNonOrderByColumns(rows);
+    }
+    // Single-phase builds the schema in the constructor; two-phase builds it 
during fetchNonOrderByColumns above.
+    assert _dataSchema != null;
+    return new SelectionResultsBlock(_dataSchema, rows, _comparator, 
_queryContext);
+  }
+
+  /// No-tail-to-sort mode: the project operator already returns rows in final 
order, so emit the next project block,
+  /// trimmed to the remaining {@code limit + offset} budget. Returns {@code 
null} when exhausted.
+  @Nullable
+  private List<Object[]> nextSortedRows() {
+    int remaining = _numRowsToKeep - _numRowsEmitted;
+    if (remaining <= 0) {
+      return null;
+    }
+    ValueBlock valueBlock = _projectOperator.nextBlock();
+    if (valueBlock == null) {
+      return null;
+    }
+    int numDocsFetched = valueBlock.getNumDocs();
+    BlockValSet[] blockValSets = new BlockValSet[_numPhase1Columns];
+    for (int i = 0; i < _numPhase1Columns; i++) {
+      blockValSets[i] = valueBlock.getBlockValueSet(_phase1Expressions.get(i));
+    }
+    RowBasedBlockValueFetcher blockValueFetcher = new 
RowBasedBlockValueFetcher(blockValSets);
+    int[] docIds = _twoPhase ? valueBlock.getDocIds() : null;
+    RoaringBitmap[] nullBitmaps = null;
+    if (_nullHandlingEnabled) {
+      nullBitmaps = new RoaringBitmap[_numPhase1Columns];
+      for (int i = 0; i < _numPhase1Columns; i++) {
+        nullBitmaps[i] = blockValSets[i].getNullBitmap();
+      }
+    }
+    _numDocsScanned += numDocsFetched;
+    _numEntriesScannedPostFilter += (long) numDocsFetched * 
_projectOperator.getNumColumnsProjected();
+    reportScanCost(numDocsFetched, (long) numDocsFetched * 
_projectOperator.getNumColumnsProjected());
+
+    // Rows arrive sorted; we only need the first 'remaining' of them globally.
+    int numRows = Math.min(numDocsFetched, remaining);
+    List<Object[]> rows = new ArrayList<>(numRows);
+    for (int i = 0; i < numRows; i++) {
+      rows.add(materializeRow(blockValueFetcher, docIds, nullBitmaps, i));
+    }
+    _numRowsEmitted += rows.size();
+    return rows;
+  }
+
+  /// Tail-to-sort mode: read forward until the first order-by value changes, 
retain the run's top
+  /// {@code limit + offset} rows by the full comparator, and return them 
sorted. Returns {@code null} when
+  /// exhausted.
+  @Nullable
+  private List<Object[]> nextRun() {
+    int remaining = _numRowsToKeep - _numRowsEmitted;
+    if (remaining <= 0) {
+      return null;
+    }
+    if (_pendingRow == null) {
+      _pendingRow = nextRow();
+      if (_pendingRow == null) {
+        return null;
+      }
+    }
+    PriorityQueue<Object[]> runHeap = _runHeap;
+    runHeap.clear();
+    Object[] runFirstRow = _pendingRow;
+    SelectionOperatorUtils.addToPriorityQueue(_pendingRow, runHeap, 
_numRowsToKeep);
+    _pendingRow = null;
+    Object[] row;
+    while ((row = nextRow()) != null) {
+      if (_primaryComparator.compare(row, runFirstRow) == 0) {
+        SelectionOperatorUtils.addToPriorityQueue(row, runHeap, 
_numRowsToKeep);
+      } else {
+        // Run boundary: this row starts the next run, keep it for the next 
call.
+        _pendingRow = row;
+        break;
+      }
+    }
+    List<Object[]> rows = drainAscending(runHeap);
+    // A segment never contributes more than 'limit + offset' rows to the 
global result, and they are a prefix of its
+    // local sorted order, so cap the total emitted across runs at the 
remaining budget (the rows are ascending, keep
+    // the smallest 'remaining').
+    if (rows.size() > remaining) {
+      rows = rows.subList(0, remaining);
+    }
+    _numRowsEmitted += rows.size();
+    return rows;
+  }
+
+  /// Pulls the next row of the forward scan (across project blocks), 
materialized as an
+  /// {@code Object[_numExpressions]}. For two-phase the document id is 
stashed at index
+  /// {@code _numOrderByExpressions} (overwritten in the second pass). Returns 
{@code null} when the project operator
+  /// is exhausted.
+  @Nullable
+  private Object[] nextRow() {
+    while (true) {
+      if (_currentBlock == null || _currentPos >= _currentNumDocs) {
+        if (_projectExhausted) {
+          return null;
+        }
+        _currentBlock = _projectOperator.nextBlock();
+        if (_currentBlock == null) {
+          _projectExhausted = true;
+          return null;
+        }
+        BlockValSet[] blockValSets = new BlockValSet[_numPhase1Columns];
+        for (int i = 0; i < _numPhase1Columns; i++) {
+          blockValSets[i] = 
_currentBlock.getBlockValueSet(_phase1Expressions.get(i));
+        }
+        _currentFetcher = new RowBasedBlockValueFetcher(blockValSets);
+        _currentNumDocs = _currentBlock.getNumDocs();
+        _currentDocIds = _twoPhase ? _currentBlock.getDocIds() : null;
+        if (_nullHandlingEnabled) {
+          _currentNullBitmaps = new RoaringBitmap[_numPhase1Columns];
+          for (int i = 0; i < _numPhase1Columns; i++) {
+            _currentNullBitmaps[i] = blockValSets[i].getNullBitmap();
+          }
+        }
+        _currentPos = 0;
+        _numDocsScanned += _currentNumDocs;
+        _numEntriesScannedPostFilter += (long) _currentNumDocs * 
_projectOperator.getNumColumnsProjected();
+        reportScanCost(_currentNumDocs, (long) _currentNumDocs * 
_projectOperator.getNumColumnsProjected());
+        if (_currentNumDocs == 0) {
+          _currentBlock = null;
+          continue;
+        }
+      }
+      int rowId = _currentPos++;
+      return materializeRow(_currentFetcher, _currentDocIds, 
_currentNullBitmaps, rowId);
+    }
+  }
+
+  /// Materializes a single phase-1 row (deep-copied out of the value block 
buffers) from the given fetcher.
+  private Object[] materializeRow(RowBasedBlockValueFetcher fetcher, @Nullable 
int[] docIds,
+      @Nullable RoaringBitmap[] nullBitmaps, int rowId) {
+    Object[] row = new Object[_numExpressions];
+    fetcher.getRow(rowId, row, 0);
+    if (_twoPhase) {
+      row[_numOrderByExpressions] = docIds[rowId];
+    }
+    if (_nullHandlingEnabled) {
+      for (int colId = 0; colId < _numPhase1Columns; colId++) {
+        if (nullBitmaps[colId] != null && nullBitmaps[colId].contains(rowId)) {
+          row[colId] = null;
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    return row;
+  }
+
+  /// Drains a max-heap (created with the reversed comparator) into an 
ascending list, mutable so the second pass can
+  /// fill non-order-by values in place.
+  private List<Object[]> drainAscending(PriorityQueue<Object[]> heap) {
+    int numRows = heap.size();
+    Object[][] sortedRows = new Object[numRows][];
+    for (int i = numRows - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+      sortedRows[i] = heap.poll();
+    }
+    return Arrays.asList(sortedRows);

Review Comment:
   Done in f3f2db3 - drainAscending now returns a real, growable ArrayList.
   
   Correction: the addAll/mergeWithOrdering throw site you cited isn't 
reachable from this operator today (mergeWithOrdering swaps references via 
setRows(); only mergeWithoutOrdering mutates, for non-ORDER-BY queries). 
Treating this as hardening rather than a live-bug fix, and said so in the 
javadoc.
   
   New test testRunPathEmitsGrowableRowLists appends to every emitted row list; 
throws pre-fix, passes post-fix.
   
   [addressed by agent]
   



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pinot-core/src/main/java/org/apache/pinot/core/operator/combine/StreamingSelectionOrderByCombineOperator.java:
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+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.pinot.core.operator.combine;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.Comparator;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.HashSet;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.PriorityQueue;
+import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
+import javax.annotation.Nullable;
+import org.apache.pinot.common.request.context.ExpressionContext;
+import org.apache.pinot.common.request.context.OrderByExpressionContext;
+import org.apache.pinot.common.utils.DataSchema;
+import org.apache.pinot.common.utils.DataSchema.ColumnDataType;
+import org.apache.pinot.core.common.Operator;
+import org.apache.pinot.core.operator.AcquireReleaseColumnsSegmentOperator;
+import org.apache.pinot.core.operator.blocks.results.BaseResultsBlock;
+import org.apache.pinot.core.operator.blocks.results.MetadataResultsBlock;
+import org.apache.pinot.core.operator.blocks.results.SelectionResultsBlock;
+import org.apache.pinot.core.operator.query.StreamingSelectionOrderByOperator;
+import org.apache.pinot.core.operator.streaming.BaseStreamingCombineOperator;
+import org.apache.pinot.core.operator.transform.function.TransformFunction;
+import 
org.apache.pinot.core.operator.transform.function.TransformFunctionFactory;
+import org.apache.pinot.core.query.request.context.QueryContext;
+import org.apache.pinot.core.query.selection.SelectionOperatorUtils;
+import org.apache.pinot.core.query.utils.OrderByComparatorFactory;
+import org.apache.pinot.segment.spi.IndexSegment;
+import org.apache.pinot.segment.spi.datasource.DataSource;
+import org.apache.pinot.segment.spi.datasource.DataSourceMetadata;
+import org.apache.pinot.spi.exception.QueryErrorCode;
+import org.apache.pinot.spi.exception.QueryErrorMessage;
+import org.apache.pinot.spi.query.QueryThreadContext;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+/// Streaming, lazy combine operator for selection ORDER BY queries whose 
first order-by expression is an identifier.
+///
+/// It performs an incremental k-way heap merge across the per-segment 
operators in {@code _operators}, returning
+/// globally sorted rows in bounded blocks. Each segment is exposed through a 
{@link SegmentCursor} that yields that
+/// segment's locally-sorted rows in order:
+///
+/// - Segments physically sorted on the first order-by column are backed by
+///   {@link StreamingSelectionOrderByOperator}, which is pulled lazily one 
run/block at a time.
+/// - Other (e.g. consuming/unsorted) segments are backed by a single 
materialized top-K block (any
+///   {@link SelectionResultsBlock}-producing operator such as {@code 
SelectionOrderByOperator}); the cursor reads that
+///   one block and iterates its rows.
+///
+/// A {@link PriorityQueue} of {@link SegmentCursor} ordered by the {@link 
OrderByComparatorFactory} comparator on
+/// each
+/// cursor's current head row drives the merge with an 
at-most-one-head-per-active-segment invariant (the heap holds the
+/// cursors themselves, never all rows, which would degenerate into a full 
heap-sort that materializes everything). Each
+/// cycle pops the global-min cursor, appends its head to the current output 
block, advances that one cursor by a single
+/// row, and re-offers it if it still has a head.
+///
+/// **Min/max lazy segment activation (pruning).** Cursors are sorted by the 
first order-by column's min value
+/// (ASC) / max value (DESC) reusing the {@code MinMaxValueContext} idea from
+/// {@link MinMaxValueBasedSelectionOrderByCombineOperator}. A cursor is only 
activated (its segment acquired and first
+/// block read) when the merge frontier reaches its min/max, so once {@code 
limit + offset} rows are emitted the
+/// remaining segments are never acquired or read. See {@link 
#activateEligibleCursors()} for the correctness argument.
+/// Pruning is disabled when null handling is enabled (an unsorted segment's 
first order-by column may then contain
+/// nulls whose ordering position the raw min/max cannot capture), in which 
case every segment is activated.
+///
+/// **Segment acquire/release lifecycle.** A cursor acquires its
+/// {@link AcquireReleaseColumnsSegmentOperator} on activation and releases it 
only when its child operator is fully
+/// drained (acquire-on-activate / release-on-exhaust), rather than per run. 
This is intentional: the backing
+/// {@link StreamingSelectionOrderByOperator} retains a buffer-backed {@code 
ValueBlock} across {@code nextBlock()}
+/// calls in its tail-to-sort mode, so releasing between interleaved runs 
could read segment buffers after a release
+/// under prefetch. Holding the acquire for the cursor's lifetime guarantees 
no release happens between a cursor's
+/// own reads; min/max pruning bounds the number of simultaneously-active 
(acquired) segments to the merge frontier.
+/// The rows handed out by the child operators are already deep-copied to heap 
{@code Object[]} (via
+/// {@code RowBasedBlockValueFetcher}), so they remain valid after the segment 
is released. Any cursors still
+/// acquired when the merge ends early (LIMIT reached) or errors out are 
released via {@link #releaseAllCursors()}.
+///
+/// **Streaming vs single-block.** When {@code _streaming} is {@code true} 
(MSE leaf path, driven by
+/// {@link 
org.apache.pinot.core.operator.streaming.StreamingInstanceResponseOperator}) 
the merge emits many bounded
+/// {@link SelectionResultsBlock}s from successive {@link #getNextBlock()} 
calls followed by a final
+/// {@link MetadataResultsBlock}. When {@code false} (classic single-stage 
path) the merge runs to completion and the
+/// first {@link #getNextBlock()} call returns a single block with execution 
stats attached.
+///
+/// **Threading.** This operator overrides {@link #start()}/{@link #stop()} to 
no-ops (other than releasing
+/// segments) and runs the merge single-threaded and lazily in {@link 
#getNextBlock()} on the consumer thread; it does
+/// not use the base worker-queue model, and {@link #processSegments()} is 
overridden to fail loud. The base
+/// {@code Phaser} (which exists only to fence worker threads against segment 
release) is intentionally bypassed because
+/// all child/segment access is synchronous on the single consumer thread that 
holds the segment references; no async
+/// work may be introduced here without restoring that fence. The instance is 
single-use (driven once to completion) and
+/// is not thread-safe.
+@SuppressWarnings({"rawtypes", "unchecked"})
+public class StreamingSelectionOrderByCombineOperator extends 
BaseStreamingCombineOperator<SelectionResultsBlock> {
+  private static final Logger LOGGER = 
LoggerFactory.getLogger(StreamingSelectionOrderByCombineOperator.class);
+  private static final String EXPLAIN_NAME = 
"COMBINE_SELECT_ORDERBY_STREAMING";
+
+  private final boolean _streaming;
+  private final boolean _asc;
+  private final boolean _pruningEnabled;
+  private final int _numRowsToKeep;
+  private final int _blockSize;
+  private final Comparator<Object[]> _comparator;
+  private final SegmentCursor[] _sortedCursors;
+  private final PriorityQueue<SegmentCursor> _priorityQueue;
+
+  // Merge progress (single-threaded; mutated only by the consumer thread 
driving getNextBlock())
+  private int _nextToActivate;
+  private int _numRowsEmitted;
+  private List<Object[]> _outputRows;
+  private boolean _done;
+  /// Captured from the first child block seen; all child blocks share the 
same schema
+  private DataSchema _dataSchema;
+  /// Deduplicated MERGE_RESPONSE errors for segment blocks dropped on schema 
mismatch; null until the first mismatch
+  @Nullable
+  private Set<String> _dataSchemaMismatchErrors;
+  /// Subset of the above not yet attached to an emitted block; drained on 
each attach
+  @Nullable
+  private List<String> _unreportedDataSchemaMismatchErrors;
+
+  public StreamingSelectionOrderByCombineOperator(List<Operator> operators, 
QueryContext queryContext,
+      ExecutorService executorService, boolean streaming) {
+    // Pass a null merger: we override the consumption path entirely and never 
touch the base merger / worker queue.
+    super(null, operators, queryContext, executorService);
+    _streaming = streaming;
+    _numRowsToKeep = queryContext.getLimit() + queryContext.getOffset();
+    // Streaming mode flushes bounded blocks; single-stage mode flushes once 
at the end as a single block.
+    _blockSize = streaming ? queryContext.getSortedSelectionMergeBlockSize() : 
Integer.MAX_VALUE;
+    _pruningEnabled = !queryContext.isNullHandlingEnabled();
+
+    List<OrderByExpressionContext> orderByExpressions = 
queryContext.getOrderByExpressions();
+    assert orderByExpressions != null && !orderByExpressions.isEmpty();
+    OrderByExpressionContext firstOrderByExpression = 
orderByExpressions.get(0);
+    assert firstOrderByExpression.getExpression().getType() == 
ExpressionContext.Type.IDENTIFIER;
+    _asc = firstOrderByExpression.isAsc();
+    String firstOrderByColumn = 
firstOrderByExpression.getExpression().getIdentifier();
+    _comparator = OrderByComparatorFactory.getComparator(orderByExpressions, 
queryContext.isNullHandlingEnabled());
+
+    // Build one cursor per segment operator and read its first order-by 
column min/max for lazy activation ordering.
+    // Reading DataSourceMetadata does not touch column buffers, so no segment 
acquire is needed here (mirrors
+    // MinMaxValueBasedSelectionOrderByCombineOperator).
+    _sortedCursors = new SegmentCursor[_numOperators];
+    for (int i = 0; i < _numOperators; i++) {
+      Operator<BaseResultsBlock> operator = _operators.get(i);
+      DataSourceMetadata metadata =
+          operator.getIndexSegment().getDataSource(firstOrderByColumn, 
queryContext.getSchema())
+              .getDataSourceMetadata();
+      _sortedCursors[i] = new SegmentCursor(operator, metadata.getMinValue(), 
metadata.getMaxValue());
+    }
+    sortCursorsByMinMax();
+
+    _priorityQueue = new PriorityQueue<>(Math.max(1, _numOperators),
+        (o1, o2) -> _comparator.compare(o1.currentHead(), o2.currentHead()));
+    _outputRows = newOutputList();
+  }
+
+  /// Sorts the cursors so the merge can activate them lazily in frontier 
order: ascending by the column min value for
+  /// ASC, descending by the column max value for DESC. Cursors without a 
min/max are placed first because they must
+  /// always be processed (mirrors {@link 
MinMaxValueBasedSelectionOrderByCombineOperator}).
+  private void sortCursorsByMinMax() {
+    if (_asc) {
+      Arrays.sort(_sortedCursors, (o1, o2) -> {
+        if (o1._minValue == null) {
+          return o2._minValue == null ? 0 : -1;
+        }
+        if (o2._minValue == null) {
+          return 1;
+        }
+        return o1._minValue.compareTo(o2._minValue);
+      });
+    } else {
+      Arrays.sort(_sortedCursors, (o1, o2) -> {
+        if (o1._maxValue == null) {
+          return o2._maxValue == null ? 0 : -1;
+        }
+        if (o2._maxValue == null) {
+          return 1;
+        }
+        return o2._maxValue.compareTo(o1._maxValue);
+      });
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String toExplainString() {
+    return EXPLAIN_NAME;
+  }
+
+  /// Override to a no-op: the merge is single-threaded and lazy in {@link 
#getNextBlock()}, so we do not spin up the
+  /// base worker threads / blocking-queue model.
+  @Override
+  public void start() {

Review Comment:
   Done in f3f2db3. isQuerySatisfied() now throws IllegalStateException, 
matching processSegments()'s existing fail-loud behavior.
   
   Kept the executor param rather than dropping it - removing it would just 
pass null up to BaseCombineOperator._executorService, the same latent-NPE shape 
one level up. Comment on the constructor explains why.
   
   New test testBaseWorkerEntryPointsFailLoud covers both seams.
   
   [addressed by agent]
   



##########
pinot-core/src/test/java/org/apache/pinot/core/operator/combine/CombineSlowOperatorsTest.java:
##########
@@ -170,13 +164,85 @@ public void testCancelGroupByOrderByCombineOperator() {
     testCancelCombineOperator(combineOperator, ready);
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void testCancelStreamingSelectionOrderByCombineOperator() {
+    CountDownLatch ready = new CountDownLatch(1);
+    List<Operator> operators = getOperators(ready, minMaxSegmentSupplier());
+    QueryContext queryContext = 
QueryContextConverterUtils.getQueryContext("SELECT * FROM testTable ORDER BY 
column");
+    queryContext.setEndTimeMs(System.currentTimeMillis() + 10000);
+    // Single-stage mode: nextBlock() drives the whole merge synchronously on 
the (cancellable) caller thread.
+    StreamingSelectionOrderByCombineOperator combineOperator =
+        new StreamingSelectionOrderByCombineOperator(operators, queryContext, 
_executorService, false);
+    testCancelCombineOperator(combineOperator, ready, operators);
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void 
testCancelStreamingSelectionOrderByCombineOperatorStreamingMode() {
+    CountDownLatch ready = new CountDownLatch(1);
+    List<Operator> operators = getOperators(ready, minMaxSegmentSupplier());
+    QueryContext queryContext = 
QueryContextConverterUtils.getQueryContext("SELECT * FROM testTable ORDER BY 
column");
+    queryContext.setEndTimeMs(System.currentTimeMillis() + 10000);
+    // Streaming (MSE-leaf) mode: the first getNextBlock() still drives the 
merge on the caller thread, so the same
+    // interrupt-on-cancel path applies and must surface an 
ExceptionResultsBlock.
+    StreamingSelectionOrderByCombineOperator combineOperator =
+        new StreamingSelectionOrderByCombineOperator(operators, queryContext, 
_executorService, true);
+    testCancelCombineOperator(combineOperator, ready, operators);
+  }
+
+  /// The merge loop drains its heap on the caller thread and, for 
single-block cursors, may never re-enter a child
+  /// operator, so it must check the query deadline itself. With an 
already-expired deadline the operator must surface a
+  /// timeout <b>before</b> activating any child - asserted via {@code 
_operationInProgress}, which also keeps the test
+  /// from passing vacuously if the timeout came from somewhere else.
+  @Test
+  public void testStreamingSelectionOrderByCombineOperatorHonorsDeadline() {
+    List<Operator> operators = getOperators(null, minMaxSegmentSupplier());

Review Comment:
   Fixed in f3f2db3 - passes a fresh CountDownLatch(1) that's never awaited 
instead of null.
   
   Correction: this can't actually NPE - the null guard predates this PR and 
still serves other tests. The real regression mode is worse for CI legibility: 
SlowOperator sleeps 3,600,000 ms, so a deadline regression hangs this test for 
an hour instead of failing. Not adding a @Test timeout for that since it 
changes test semantics and wasn't asked for, but can if you'd like.
   
   [addressed by agent]
   



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