Github user chenghao-intel commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1325#discussion_r14634396
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sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/optimizer/Optimizer.scala
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@@ -112,6 +113,23 @@ object ColumnPruning extends Rule[LogicalPlan] {
}
/**
+ * Simplifies LIKE expressions that do not need full regular expressions
to evaluate the condition.
+ * For example, when the expression is just checking to see if a string
starts with a given
+ * pattern.
+ */
+object LikeSimplification extends Rule[LogicalPlan] {
+ val startsWith = "([^_%]+)%".r
+ val endsWith = "%([^_%]+)".r
+ val contains = "%([^_%]+)%".r
+
+ def apply(plan: LogicalPlan): LogicalPlan = plan transformAllExpressions
{
+ case Like(l, Literal(startsWith(pattern), StringType)) =>
StartsWith(l, Literal(pattern))
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Yeah, this is a very cool optimization, and it's should support the
escaping character of the user input, otherwise bug exists.
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