maropu commented on a change in pull request #30018:
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/30018#discussion_r508993694



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File path: 
sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/optimizer/Optimizer.scala
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@@ -477,6 +478,25 @@ object RemoveRedundantAliases extends Rule[LogicalPlan] {
   def apply(plan: LogicalPlan): LogicalPlan = removeRedundantAliases(plan, 
AttributeSet.empty)
 }
 
+/**
+ * Remove redundant aggregates from a query plan. A redundant aggregate is an 
aggregate whose
+ * only goal is to keep distinct values, while its parent aggregate would 
ignore duplicate values.
+ */
+object RemoveRedundantAggregates extends Rule[LogicalPlan] {
+  def apply(plan: LogicalPlan): LogicalPlan = plan transformUp {

Review comment:
       > transformUp can handle more than two consecutive aggregates in a 
single iteration.
   
   You meant that `transformUp` can transform `A1(A2(A3(...))) => A1()` in a 
single iteration? Probably, I miss some conditions for the case you described 
above, so could you give me a concrete query example for it?




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