Hi, thanks for the reply!

Right, the nested loop approach iterates each row, this means that we can not 
push the references as filter of the `book` table in one request, but one by 
one.

The second approach sounds promising; can you show us a similar example?
Thanks!

On 2023/05/19 01:14:49 Julian Hyde wrote:
> I expect that your table works if you put the filter in the WHERE clause, e.g.
> 
>   SELECT *
>   FROM Books AS b
>   WHERE b.id <http://b.id/> IN (1, 10, 27)
> 
> and it does so using FilterTableScanRule (which matches a Filter on top of a 
> Scan of a FilterableTable). But you need a new planner rule that can convert 
> a Join whose right input is a Scan of a FilterableTable into a 
> NestedLoopsJoin that dynamically sets the filter for each row from the left. 
> (In this query, config would be on the left, Books on the right.)
> 
> There could be a more efficient version that gathers all IDs from the left, 
> then does one request to the right, and them something like a hash join.
> 
> Julian
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > On May 17, 2023, at 8:41 AM, Luca Marchi <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > Morning everyone, 
> > in our company we are running a POC using Apache Calcite, and we would like 
> > to collect some feedbacks from you for the scenario mentioned below.
> > 
> > There is a service API that allows retrieving some `Book`s, and we would 
> > like to build a table adapter on top of this service; this API 
> > only accepts a set of IDs, and if no IDs are provided, no result is 
> > returned.
> > 
> > ```
> >  interface BookService {
> >    /** Returns the books matching the given IDs.
> >     *
> >     * <p>If not IDs is provided, no result is returned.
> >     */
> >    List<Book> findBooksByIds(Set<String> ids);
> >  }
> > 
> >  record Book(String id, String title) {};
> > ```
> > 
> > A requirement of this table is that it has to support join, and we would 
> > like to support joining by ID in an efficient way.
> > 
> > The goal is to define a rule that forces the query planner to always push 
> > down join predicates into a table scan.
> > 
> > Given the following `book` table:
> > 
> > ```java
> > /** A table which represents books, queryable only by their ID. */
> > final class BookTable extends AbstractTable implements FilterableTable {
> >  private final BookService service;
> > 
> >  BookTable(BookService service) {
> >    this.service = service;
> >  }
> > 
> >  @Override
> >  public RelDataType getRowType(RelDataTypeFactory typeFactory) {
> >    return new RelDataTypeFactory.Builder(typeFactory)
> >        .add("id", SqlTypeName.VARCHAR)
> >        .add("title", SqlTypeName.VARCHAR)
> >        .build();
> >  }
> > 
> >  @Override
> >  public Enumerable<Object[]> scan(DataContext root, List<RexNode> filters) {
> >    Set<String> bookIds = getBooksId(filters);
> >    List<Object[]> result = service.findBooksByIds(bookIds)
> >        .stream()
> >        .map(b -> new Object[]{b.id, b.title})
> >        .toList();
> > 
> >    return Linq4j.asEnumerable(result);
> >  }
> > 
> >  private static Set<String> getBooksId(List<RexNode> filters) {
> >    if (filters.size() != 1) {
> >      throw new IllegalArgumentException("Expected one filter to the ID, 
> > found: %d".formatted(filters.size()));
> >    }
> > 
> >    RexNode filter = filters.get(0);
> >    RexNode leftCondition = ((RexCall) filter).getOperands().get(0);
> >    RexNode rightCondition = ((RexCall) filter).getOperands().get(1);
> > 
> >    if (leftCondition instanceof RexInputRef left
> >        && rightCondition instanceof RexLiteral right
> >        // The index of the ID column is 1.
> >        && left.getIndex() == 1) {
> >      if (filter.isA(SqlKind.EQUALS)) {
> >        String bookId = right.getValue2().toString();
> >        return ImmutableSet.of(bookId);
> >      }
> >      if (filter.isA(SqlKind.SEARCH)) {
> >        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
> >        Sarg<NlsString> searchArguments = right.getValueAs(Sarg.class);
> >        return searchArguments.rangeSet.asRanges().stream()
> >            .map(Range::lowerEndpoint)
> >            .map(NlsString::getValue)
> >            .collect(toSet());
> >      }
> >    }
> >    throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unexpected operator, found: 
> > %s".formatted(filter.getKind()));
> >  }
> > }
> > ```
> > 
> > The API of the `BookService` always expects a set of IDs, and in case of 
> > query like (assuming an entry in `book` matching the ID `'a'`):
> > ```sql
> > WITH config (id, val) AS (
> >    VALUES ('a', 3), ('b', 5)
> > )
> > SELECT b.* FROM books b
> > INNER JOIN config ON b.id = config.id
> > WHERE config.val > 4
> > ```
> > 
> > Calcite produces the following plan:
> > ```
> > EnumerableCalc(expr#0..2=[{inputs}], id=[$t1], title=[$t2])
> >  EnumerableMergeJoin(condition=[=($0, $1)], joinType=[inner])
> >    EnumerableSort(sort0=[$0], dir0=[ASC])
> >      EnumerableCalc(expr#0..1=[{inputs}], id=[$t0])
> >        EnumerableTableScan(table=[[books]])
> >    EnumerableSort(sort0=[$0], dir0=[ASC])
> >      EnumerableTableScan(table=[[books]])
> > ```
> > 
> > This means Calcite performs a full table scan of the `book` table, and 
> > since the `RexNode` filters in the `scan` method are empty, no result is 
> > returned (in this example we are using a value statement scoped views, but 
> > ideally the solution we are looking for should be valid for other table).
> > Under some defined circustances, Postgres generates Nested-Loop query plan 
> > for join: it first selects the row of the table A matching a given 
> > condition, then iterates over the retrieved rows and performs a scan of 
> > table B looking for rows that match the join condition; and this seems 
> > something we would like to enforce it here.
> > 
> > In summary, we would like to implement a table which in case of JOIN is 
> > capable of loading the individual IDs matching the API of our service, 
> > rather than performing a full table scan.
> > 
> > Do you have any advises/feedback for us?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> 
> 

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