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Julian Hyde commented on CALCITE-7362:
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Aggregate functions apply relational algebra to their input rows. They choose
which expressions to apply to (project), and they choose which incoming rows to
apply to (filter). (The "distinct", "within distinct" and "within group"
keywords respectively implement "distinct", "group by", and "order by"
relational operators.)
Why conflate project and filter into one expression?
> Add rule to transform WHERE clauses into conditional aggregates
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: CALCITE-7362
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-7362
> Project: Calcite
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: core
> Reporter: Stamatis Zampetakis
> Assignee: Stamatis Zampetakis
> Priority: Major
>
> Add a rule to transform aggregate queries with filtering based on WHERE
> clauses to conditional aggregates (CASE WHEN) without a WHERE clause.
> The proposed transformation using the SQL representation is shown below:
> +Before+
> {code:sql}
> select sum(ss_net_paid_inc_tax)
> from store_sales
> where ss_quantity < 20
> {code}
> +After+
> {code:sql}
> select sum(case when ss_quantity < 20 then ss_net_paid_inc_tax else null)
> from store_sales
> {code}
> The queries are equivalent and the transformation is valid for all aggregate
> functions that [skip NULL input
> values|https://github.com/apache/calcite/blob/c0d5a0832808fabfa32dea744415c0f46c516bce/core/src/main/java/org/apache/calcite/sql/SqlAggFunction.java#L233].
> The transformation is correct only when there is *no* GROUP BY clause (or
> GROUP BY ()).
> The main motivation for introducing this rule is view-based rewriting where
> it is quite common to have multiple conditional aggregates in the same
> (materialized) view definition for precomputing and reusing expensive
> aggregations.
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