I've been integrating Calcite/Avatica into Solr and ran into a case where
adding an order by or a limit changes the output of
DatabaseMetaData.getColumnName and getColumnLabel.

An example is below:

Behavior 1 (which I think is correct from reading the JDBC DatabaseMetaData
spec):
- select e."name" as full_name from "hr"."emps" as e;
- getColumnName(1) -> name
- getColumnLabel(1) -> FULL_NAME

Behavior 2:
- select e."name" as full_name from "hr"."emps" as e limit 10;
- getColumnName(1) -> FULL_NAME
- getColumnLabel(1) -> FULL_NAME

I was able to reproduce the behavior with the JdbcExample.java file in the
master branch of Calcite since I wasn't sure if it was my adapter
originally.

I started looking at the SqlParserTest and added this test case which
doesn't error out.

/**
 * "LIMIT ... OFFSET ..." is the postgres equivalent of SQL:2008
 * "OFFSET ... FETCH". It all maps down to a parse tree that looks like
 * SQL:2008.
 */
@Test public void testColumnAliasWithAsWithLimit() {
  check(
      "select a as abc from foo order by b, c limit 2 offset 1",
      "SELECT `A` AS `ABC`\n"
          + "FROM `FOO`\n"
          + "ORDER BY `B`, `C`\n"
          + "OFFSET 1 ROWS\n"
          + "FETCH NEXT 2 ROWS ONLY");
  check(
      "select a as abc from foo order by b, c limit 2",
      "SELECT `A` AS `ABC`\n"
          + "FROM `FOO`\n"
          + "ORDER BY `B`, `C`\n"
          + "FETCH NEXT 2 ROWS ONLY");
  check(
      "select a as abc from foo order by b, c offset 1",
      "SELECT `A` AS `ABC`\n"
          + "FROM `FOO`\n"
          + "ORDER BY `B`, `C`\n"
          + "OFFSET 1 ROWS");

I'm not sure where to look next to try to find this to submit a patch. Let
me know if you need more information.


I think this potentially causes some problems down the line when the
original name or alias is used for ordering and having, but I haven't been
able to verify this for sure.

Kevin Risden

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