ShashidharM0118 commented on PR #19434:
URL: https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/19434#issuecomment-3678860994

   > @ShashidharM0118 see [#19092 
(comment)](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/issues/19092#issuecomment-3678747013).
 I'm wondering why the existing const evaluation isn't already simplifying 
this. It doesn't seem like it should require `is (not) null` specific code.
   
   If I understand correctly,
   The existing `simplify_const_expr` already handles `IS NULL(literal)` and 
`IS NOT NULL(literal)` through `IsNullExpr::evaluate()` and 
`IsNotNullExpr::evaluate()`, which correctly evaluate literals.
   
   The issue was that simplification was conditional. In the original code at 
lines 469-480 in `pruning_predicate.rs`:
   ```
   if tf.transformed {
       // ... comments ...
       let simplifier = PhysicalExprSimplifier::new(&schema);
       expr = simplifier.simplify(tf.data)?;
   } else {
       expr = tf.data;  // Line 479: simplifier skipped here
   }
   ```
   When `tf.transformed == false` (e.g., for regular expressions like 
`or(is_not_null(lit(NULL)), col("a").eq(lit(24)))` without 
`DynamicFilterPhysicalExpr`), the simplifier was skipped entirely at line 479.
   
   As a result, expressions like `IS NOT NULL(NULL literal)` reached 
`build_predicate_expression` unsimplified, causing pruning to be skipped (the 
expression incorrectly simplified to `true` via `unhandled_hook`, making `true 
OR (pruning_expr) = true`, which prevents pruning).
   


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