james727 commented on a change in pull request #1618:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion/pull/1618#discussion_r789955233



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File path: datafusion/src/optimizer/filter_push_down.rs
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@@ -253,33 +176,107 @@ fn split_members<'a>(predicate: &'a Expr, predicates: 
&mut Vec<&'a Expr>) {
     }
 }
 
+// For a given JOIN logical plan, determine whether each side of the join is 
preserved.
+// We say a join side is preserved if the join returns all or a subset of the 
rows from
+// the relevant side - i.e. the side of the join cannot provide nulls. Returns 
a tuple
+// of booleans - (left_preserved, right_preserved).
+fn lr_is_preserved(plan: &LogicalPlan) -> (bool, bool) {
+    match plan {
+        LogicalPlan::Join(Join { join_type, .. }) => match join_type {
+            JoinType::Inner => (true, true),
+            JoinType::Left => (true, false),
+            JoinType::Right => (false, true),
+            JoinType::Full => (false, false),

Review comment:
       Maybe whether a side is `nullable` is the better distinction here? I see 
your point about both sides of the `FULL` join being preserved, but you still 
can't push filters because they can provide extra null rows.




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