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Julian Hyde commented on CALCITE-6020:
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{{SUM0}} stores less information than {{SUM}}. Therefore there are situations
where {{SUM0}} is easier to compute and still provides the needed data. Summary
tables are one example.
If you need {{SUM}} you can compute it from {{SUM0}} and {{COUNT}}: {{SUM(x)
=== CASE COUNT(x) WHEN 0 THEN NULL ELSE SUM0(x)}}
I can't make the claim that SUM0 is definitely needed anywhere. However I do
claim that it is a better primitive than SUM, and we should be embracing the
best primitives we can find.
> SqlToRelConverter should not replace windowed SUM with equivalent expression
> using SUM0
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> Key: CALCITE-6020
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-6020
> Project: Calcite
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Zoltan Haindrich
> Assignee: Zoltan Haindrich
> Priority: Major
> Labels: pull-request-available
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> {{SqlToRelConverter}} replaces {{SUM}} with {{SUM0}} around
> [here|https://github.com/apache/calcite/blob/e1991e08a225ef08c2402ab35c310d88fff3c222/core/src/main/java/org/apache/calcite/sql2rel/SqlToRelConverter.java#L5885]
> This might have been needed at some point in the past - but I think it will
> be better to leave it as {{SUM}} - as in case there is no {{SUM0}} in the
> system that will be replaced with a {{COALESCE(SUM(...) , 0 )}} to provide it
> - as see
> [here|https://github.com/apache/calcite/blob/e1991e08a225ef08c2402ab35c310d88fff3c222/core/src/test/java/org/apache/calcite/rel/rel2sql/RelToSqlConverterTest.java#L1288]
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