Julian Hyde created CALCITE-5105: ------------------------------------ Summary: Add MEASURE type and AGGREGATE aggregate function Key: CALCITE-5105 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-5105 Project: Calcite Issue Type: Bug Reporter: Julian Hyde
In CALCITE-4496 we propose adding measures to SQL, and an "AS MEASURE" sub-clause to the SELECT clause so that you can define measures. This change is a first step in that direction: namely the ability to define the columns are measures and use validate queries that use measures. This change adds a {{MEASURE}} type, which is parameterized with the value type, so that in RelNode-and-RexNode-land a measure column whose value is of type {{INTEGER}} would have type {{MEASURE<INTEGER>}}. (In SqlNode-land its type would be {{INTEGER}} and we would tell that it was a measure by some other means.) This change also adds an aggregate function called {{AGGREGATE}} that evaluates measures in the current {{GROUP BY}} context. (You can think of this as letting the measures roll themselves up as only they know how. For example, if the {{sum_price}} measure is defined as {{SUM(price)}} then if I write {{AGGREGATE(sum_price)}} in my query it's as if I wrote {{SUM(price)}}. But we also support measures that have more complex formulas.) -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.7#820007)