mustafasrepo commented on code in PR #11536:
URL: https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/11536#discussion_r1684015535


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datafusion/physical-plan/src/union.rs:
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@@ -431,7 +431,12 @@ impl ExecutionPlan for InterleaveExec {
         self: Arc<Self>,
         children: Vec<Arc<dyn ExecutionPlan>>,
     ) -> Result<Arc<dyn ExecutionPlan>> {
-        Ok(Arc::new(InterleaveExec::try_new(children)?))
+        // New children may not be able to interleave; in that case, we fall 
back to UnionExec.

Review Comment:
   > I see how this particular change is beneficial as now the plan runs where 
it didn't before, so that is hard to argue with and I would be ok merging it in
   > 
   > However, I feel like this might be silently masking some bug in the 
planner. My personal preference would be to make this an error
   > 
   > ```rust
   > if !can_interleave(children.iter()) {
   >   return internal_err!("Can not create InterleaveExec: new children can 
not be interleaved");
   > }
   > ```
   > 
   > And then track down / fix whatever optimizer pass is causing the children 
to no longer be interleavable
   > 
   > FYI @mustafasrepo
   
   This makes sense, invariant should be handled outside the operator during 
planning. This checks the whether assumptions met. Thanks for this.



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