Hi Julian,

Thanks a lot Julian for your feedback. I have inlined my response below
which also includes the commit done.

Regards,
Amogh

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 1:05 AM, Julian Hyde <[email protected]> wrote:

> This is great work. Certainly consistent with where I am heading.
>
> I would not be inclined to use DNF (because of its tendency to inflate
> certain predicates) but if you are able to get something effective I
> will happily use it. I think you should package it behind a method --
> "find out what is left to satisfy p when you have already satisfied q"
> or something -- and write lots of tests of that method, and it doesn't
> really matter what algorithm is behind it.
>
> Take a look at SubstitutionVisitor.simplfy(RexNode) and how it focuses
> on finding whether
>
>   p1 AND p2 AND p3 AND NOT (q1 AND q2 AND q3)
>
> is satisfiable.
>

>> I saw this method. I will try to use this in improvements to follow.
>> It didnot seem to solve this currently: (x>10 => x>30)  i.e., find if
>>  NOT (NOT(x>10 )  OR  x >30) is satisfiable.
>> We have currently packaged it as "if X => Y" (see RexImplicationChecker
>> in the commit I shared below), but agree it should be
>> more generic like what you suggested above and something we can try to
achieve.

>
> Later we will want to know not just "can I satisfy query Q using
> materialization M?" but "can I satisfy part of Q using M, and what is
> left over?". I can convert most of Q to use an aggregate table over
> years 2012 .. 2014 and 2015 Jan - May, and then scan the raw data for
> June 1st onwards, that is a big win.
>

>> This certainly should be something we should aim at.

>
> What branch are you working on? Your master branch
> https://github.com/qubole/incubator-calcite/tree/master seems to be
> the same as apache/master right now.
>
> >> We work on https://github.com/qubole/incubator-calcite/tree/qds-1.3 .
>> This is the commit:
https://github.com/qubole/incubator-calcite/pull/1/files?diff=unified
>> We are in the process of writing UTs for it. We did most of the testing
through our client code till now.
>> We have created new Visitor extending SustitutionVisitor because did not
want to mess with the existing code.
>> More rules need to be added to the new Visitor.
>> Will raise a PR once UTs are added and testing is complete.


> If you can divide this work into pull requests with unit tests, I will
> happy commit each change as you make progress.
>
> By the way, I logged a few jira cases connected to materialized view
> rewrite today. They were motivated by the phoenix team wanting to use
> secondary indexes. But they could by applied to any scan-project-sort
> materialization. See
>
> * https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-771
> * https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-772
> * https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-773
>

>> Thanks for sharing this info Julian. Will definitely take a look.

>
> Julian
>
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Amogh Margoor <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > We were working on a problem to detect if materialized view can be used
> to
> > rewrite a query in non-trivial cases. Will briefly describe the problem
> and
> > approach below and would appreciate feedback on the same.
> >
> > Motivation
> > ---------------
> > For instance there exists a table "logs" and a partition (materialized
> > view)  named "log_after_01_Jan" created on it and described by SQL :
> > "Select * from logs where log_date > '01-01-2015' ".
> >
> > Assume that the table "log_after_01_Jan" is much smaller than  table
> "logs".
> >
> >  For user query:
> > "Select log_body from logs where log_date > '03-03-2015' and
> > char_length(log_body) < 100",
> > we should detect that the materialized view "log_after_01_Jan" can be
> used
> > and transform the query into:
> >
> > "Select log_body from log_after_01_Jan where log_date > '03-03-2015' and
> > char_length(log_body) < 100"
> >
> > Approach
> > --------------
> > One of the fundamental problems we would come across here is to check if
> a
> > boolean condition X implies (=>) Y. This quickly reduces to the
> > Satisfiability problem which is NP complete for propositional logic. But
> > there are many instances like above which can be detected easily. We have
> > implemented an approach to handle several useful cases for few operators
> > and types of operands. Will be extending it further for more types of
> > operations.
> >
> > Top Level approach:
> >
> > 1. Currently, VolcanoPlanner:useMaterialization tries to rewrite original
> > query using MV using SubstitutionVisitor. Have extended
> SubstitutionVisitor
> > to detect above cases and do the substitution.
> >
> > 2. To check if a condition X => Y,
> >    a. Convert both of them into Disjunctive Normal Form.
> >        Say X is transformed into  x_1 or x_2 or x_3 ... or x_m and
> >        Y is transformed into y_1 or y_2 ,... or  y_i, where any x_i and
> y_i
> > are conjunctions of atomic predicates.
> >        For instance condition "(a>10 or b>20) and c <90" will be
> converted
> > to DNF: (a>10 and c<90)  or (b>20 and c<90).
> >
> >    b. For X=>Y to be a tautology i.e., hold always true, every
> conjunction
> > x_i should imply atleast one of the conjunction y_j.
> >        We wrote some set of simple heuristics to check if a conjunction
> of
> > atomic predicates implies another.
> >       This also involves executing RexNode using RexImplExecutor.
> >
> > We have checked in code for this in our fork of
> > calcite(qubole/incubator-calcite). This is ongoing work and we will be
> > making many more improvements to it. If this is useful or anybody is
> > interested in giving feedback then I can share the commit so that we can
> > discuss about it and take it forward.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Amogh
> > Member of Technical Staff
> > Qubole
>

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