Github user JamesRTaylor commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/phoenix/pull/34#discussion_r23670722 --- Diff: phoenix-core/src/main/java/org/apache/phoenix/expression/Expression.java --- @@ -88,4 +88,9 @@ * @return */ boolean requiresFinalEvaluation(); + + /** + * @return the estimated size in bytes of the expression when serialized + */ + int getEstimatedByteSize(); --- End diff -- I think this may not be worth adding, as the more methods we have here, the higher the burden of adding new expressions. The only place we use this is for the IndexMaintainer to serialize it's bytes (true?), but we'll likely move toward Protobufs in the next major release. Could we have a crude estimate instead? Maybe based on total number of expressions in the tree (which we could track in ExpressionCompiler in this method (by just have a totalNodeCount member variable, incrementing it here by one, and resetting it to zero in reset()): @Override public void addElement(List<Expression> l, Expression element) { nodeCount--; l.add(element); } Thoughts?
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