viirya commented on a change in pull request #32559:
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/32559#discussion_r636507262



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File path: 
sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/expressions/EquivalentExpressions.scala
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@@ -83,20 +83,35 @@ class EquivalentExpressions {
    * Adds only expressions which are common in each of given expressions, in a 
recursive way.
    * For example, given two expressions `(a + (b + (c + 1)))` and `(d + (e + 
(c + 1)))`,
    * the common expression `(c + 1)` will be added into `equivalenceMap`.
+   *
+   * Note that as we don't know in advance if any child node of an expression 
will be common
+   * across all given expressions, we count all child nodes when looking 
through the given
+   * expressions. But when we call `addExprTree` to add common expressions 
into the map, we
+   * will add recursively the child nodes. So we need to filter the child 
expressions first.
+   * For example, if `((a + b) + c)` and `(a + b)` are common expressions, we 
only add
+   * `((a + b) + c)`.
    */
   private def addCommonExprs(
       exprs: Seq[Expression],
       addFunc: Expression => Boolean = addExpr): Unit = {
     val exprSetForAll = mutable.Set[Expr]()

Review comment:
       You mean `equivalenceMap`?




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