kosiew commented on PR #22161:
URL: https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/22161#issuecomment-4531064661

   @Omega359 
   Good catch — this is a semantic regression.
   
   The current guard only proves that the first list level is a non-empty, 
non-null literal (`unnest_preserves_at_least_one_row_per_input` / 
`literal_non_empty_list`). That is not enough for recursive/nested unnest. In 
the example, the outer list has one element, so the guard incorrectly treats it 
as row-preserving, but the inner list is empty and the second unnest removes 
all rows before the `GROUP BY`.
   
   I’ll fix this by making the optimization more conservative for recursive 
list unnesting: only prune when the rule can prove every unnest step preserves 
at least one row. Practically, I’ll block pruning for list `UNNEST` entries 
with `depth > 1` unless/until we add a recursive literal proof. I’ll also add 
the exact SQL regression (and a unit test) so this case stays unoptimized and 
returns the empty result, preserving empty/null list and `preserve_nulls` 
behavior.
   


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