RexShuttle does not have a watertight specification. It does what it needs to 
do for the cases that use it. Generally, if the sub-elements of a RelNode are 
sub-types of RexNode, RexShuttle processes them, otherwise it ignores them. But 
pragmatically, as long as what you do doesn’t break the tests, it’s OK.

> On Feb 4, 2019, at 1:05 AM, Piotr Nowojski <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Stamatis,
> 
> Thank you for the answer! I have some questions to clarify that.
> 
> 1. What if my new node doesn’t strictly have a `RexNode`, but it’s referring 
> to the inputs indirectly, like via `String fieldName` instead of using 
> RexInputRef?
> 2. Arguably this is the similar thing what `Aggregate` node is doing. Both 
> `List<ImmutableBitSet> groupSets` and `List<AggregateCall> aggCalls` (in 
> `Aggregate`) are referring to the operator/node inputs using indexes.
> 
> Piotrek
> 
>> On 2 Feb 2019, at 15:37, Stamatis Zampetakis <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Piotr,
>> 
>> Aggregate is not doing anything in #accept(RexShuttle) since it does not
>> contain row expressions (RexNode). If the node you introduce uses row
>> expressions then it makes sense to apply the shuttle to every expression.
>> 
>> Best,
>> Stamatis
>> 
>> Στις Πέμ, 31 Ιαν 2019 στις 5:39 μ.μ., ο/η Piotr Nowojski <
>> [email protected]> έγραψε:
>> 
>>> Hi!
>>> 
>>> We are adding a new custom RelNode, that behaves a little bit like
>>> Aggregate node and we are wondering how we should implement
>>> 
>>> RelNode#accept(org.apache.calcite.rex.RexShuttle)
>>> 
>>> Our node has a similar feature as Aggregate node, that it’s keying by the
>>> incoming data. At first I thought that this #accept() method should be
>>> implemented by applying the RexShuttle to all of the expressions that node
>>> is using internally (in our case key fields “expressions”/“references"),
>>> like it’s done in Join, Sort, Filter, …. But then I noticed that this
>>> method is not implemented for Aggregate node. So can we leave this method
>>> with the default implementation `return this;` as Aggregate node does it?
>>> 
>>> Thanks, Piotr Nowojski
> 

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