Github user paul-rogers commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/906#discussion_r134628593 --- Diff: exec/java-exec/src/main/java/org/apache/drill/exec/physical/impl/project/ProjectRecordBatch.java --- @@ -768,4 +765,73 @@ else if (exprHasPrefix && refHasPrefix) { } } } + + /** + * handle FAST NONE specially when Project for query output. This happens when input returns a + * FAST NONE directly ( input does not return any batch with schema/data). + * + * Project operator has to return a batch with schema derived using the following 3 rules: + * Case 1: * ==> expand into an empty list of columns. + * Case 2: regular column reference ==> treat as nullable-int column + * Case 3: expressions => Call ExpressionTreeMaterialization over an empty vector contain. + * Once the expression is materialized without error, use the output type of materialized + * expression. + * The batch is constructed with the above rules, and recordCount = 0. + * Returned with OK_NEW_SCHEMA to down-stream operator. + */ + @Override + protected IterOutcome handleFastNone() { + if (! popConfig.isOutputProj()) { + return super.handleFastNone(); + } + + allocationVectors = new ArrayList<>(); + final List<NamedExpression> exprs = getExpressionList(); + final ErrorCollector collector = new ErrorCollectorImpl(); + VectorContainer fakedIncomingVC = new VectorContainer(); + + for (NamedExpression namedExpression : exprs) { + if (namedExpression.getExpr() instanceof SchemaPath) { + final NameSegment expr = ((SchemaPath) namedExpression.getExpr()).getRootSegment(); + if (expr.getPath().contains(StarColumnHelper.STAR_COLUMN)) { + continue; // * would expand into an empty list. + } else { + final TypeProtos.MajorType majorType = TypeProtos.MajorType.newBuilder() + .setMinorType(MinorType.INT) + .setMode(TypeProtos.DataMode.OPTIONAL) + .build(); + + MaterializedField outputField = MaterializedField.create(namedExpression.getRef().getRootSegment().getPath(), majorType); + final ValueVector vv = container.addOrGet(outputField, callBack); --- End diff -- Does this code handle map columns? `map1.nestedMap.col`? Does this code handle references to arrays, such as `columns[2]` for a CSV file?
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