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Thejas M Nair commented on PIG-4128:
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> New logical optimizer rule: ConstantCalculator
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> Key: PIG-4128
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-4128
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: impl
> Reporter: Daniel Dai
> Assignee: Daniel Dai
> Fix For: 0.14.0
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> Attachments: PIG-4128-1.patch, PIG-4128-2.patch, PIG-4128-3.patch
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> Pig used to have a LogicExpressionSimplifier to simplify expression which
> also calculates constant expression. The optimizer rule is buggy and we
> disable it by default in PIG-2316.
> However, we do need this feature especially in partition/predicate push down,
> since both does not deal with complex constant expression, we'd like to
> replace the expression with constant before the actual push down. Yes, user
> may manually do the calculation and rewrite the query, but even rewrite is
> sometimes not possible. Consider the case user want to push a datetime
> predicate, user have to write a ToDate udf since Pig does not have datetime
> constant.
> In this Jira, I provide a new rule: ConstantCalculator, which is much simpler
> and much less error prone, to replace LogicExpressionSimplifier.
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