Optimizer hangs with query that uses more than 6 tables and does subquery
flattening.
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Key: DERBY-558
URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-558
Project: Derby
Type: Bug
Versions: 10.1.1.0, 10.0.2.1, 10.0.2.0, 10.1.2.0, 10.2.0.0, 10.0.2.2
Environment: Running query in "ij" with derby.optimizer.noTimeout=true
Reporter: A B
Assigned to: A B
Fix For: 10.1.2.0, 10.2.0.0
I was running a query that has a large number (hundreds) of tables in it and I
set the derby property "derby.optimizer.noTimeout" to true to see what plan
Derby would choose as the _best_ plan for the query. When doing so, I ran into
a situation where the optimizer hung forever--which is wrong. I expect that
setting "noTimeout" to true might cause the query to run more slowly (since it
has to evaluate ALL possible join orders for all of the tables in question),
but it should _not_ cause the optimizer to hang forever.
I noticed that "subquery flattening" is peformed on the query, which introduces
dependencies between the various tables and thus restricts the possible join
orders that the optimizer can choose (see
http://db.apache.org/derby/docs/10.1/tuning/ctuntransform25868.html). I was
eventually able to track the problem down to code in OptimizerImpl where, for
queries with more than 6 tables, a certain "jumping" algorithm is used to try
to allow the optimizer to find a better plan more quickly.
Long story short, there is logic in the "jumping" mechanism that tries to put
the tables into a legal join order, but in certain (rare) cases where multiple
join order dependencies have to be enforced, the jump logic can end up looping
indefinitely, causing the "hang" in the optimizer.
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