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Pavel Tiunov commented on ARROW-10374:
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Hey [~jorgecarleitao]! Thanks for the quick turnaround. The use case is usually
to support grouping by complex statements. For example
{code:java}
SELECT date_trunc(convert_tz(`page_views__time_hour`, 'America/Los_Angeles'),
'week') `page_views__time_week`, sum(`page_views__count`) `page_views__count`
FROM page_views GROUP BY date_trunc(convert_tz(`page_views__time_hour`,
'America/Los_Angeles'), 'week') LIMIT 10000
{code}
becomes
{code:java}
SELECT date_trunc(convert_tz(`page_views__time_hour`, 'America/Los_Angeles'),
'week') `page_views__time_week`, sum(`page_views__count`) `page_views__count`
FROM page_views GROUP BY 1 LIMIT 10000
{code}
Calculated columns can be pretty complex and it usually just bloats up the SQL
significantly. I believe it's beneficial to have this feature as most of the
modern query engines have it.
> [Rust] [DataFusion] Grouping by column position
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> Key: ARROW-10374
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-10374
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Rust - DataFusion
> Reporter: Pavel Tiunov
> Priority: Major
>
> It would be great to have the support of grouping by column position instead
> of grouping by exact expression. For example:
> {code:java}
> SELECT state, COUNT(*) FROM customers GROUP BY 1{code}
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