Mike Davis created DRILL-1408: --------------------------------- Summary: SELECT column from CSV with JOIN returns null if not part of JOIN condition Key: DRILL-1408 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-1408 Project: Apache Drill Issue Type: Bug Components: Storage - Text & CSV Affects Versions: 0.5.0 Environment: CentOS 6.5, MapR M7 Reporter: Mike Davis
A SELECT for a column from a CSV file with a JOIN condition always returns null for columns not included in the JOIN condition. When querying each table separately, the values are returned as expected. Note that this works fine for any combination of JSON and Parquet, but fails when at least one of the files is CSV. Simple example with two small CSV files: beatles.csv: --------------------------- 1,John,Lennon 2,Paul,McCartney 3,George,Harrison 4,Ringo,Starr ---------------------------- songs.csv: ---------------------------- 1,Help 2,Yesterday 3,Blue Jay Way 4,Yellow Submarine ---------------------------- This queries returns values as expected: SELECT columns[0] AS id, CONCAT(columns[1], ' ', columns[2]) AS singer FROM dfs.`beatles.csv`; This query returns 4 results, all with null values: SELECT S.columns[1] AS song, CONCAT(B.columns[1], ' ', B.columns[2]) AS singer FROM dfs.`beatles.csv` AS B INNER JOIN dfs.`songs.csv` AS S ON B.columns[0] = S.columns[0]; The only columns that return non-null values are the ones from the JOIN condition (B.columns[0] and S.columns[0] in the following query): SELECT S.columns[1] AS song, CONCAT(B.columns[1], ' ', B.columns[2]) AS singer, S.columns[0] AS beatles_id, B.columns[0] AS id FROM dfs.`beatles.csv` AS B INNER JOIN dfs.`songs.csv` AS S ON B.columns[0] = S.columns[0]; -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)