UBarney commented on code in PR #16210:
URL: https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/16210#discussion_r2144133973
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datafusion/physical-plan/src/joins/nested_loop_join.rs:
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@@ -178,6 +187,18 @@ pub struct NestedLoopJoinExec {
metrics: ExecutionPlanMetricsSet,
/// Cache holding plan properties like equivalences, output partitioning
etc.
cache: PlanProperties,
+ /// Null matching behavior: If `null_equals_null` is true, rows that have
+ /// `null`s in both left and right equijoin columns will be matched.
+ /// Otherwise, rows that have `null`s in the join columns will not be
+ /// matched and thus will not appear in the output.
+ null_equals_null: bool,
+ /// Set of equijoin columns from the relations: `(left_col, right_col)`
+ ///
+ /// This is optional as a nested loop join can be passed a 'on' clause
+ /// in the case that a Hash Join cost is more expensive than a
+ /// nested loop join or when a user would like to pick nested loop
+ /// join by hint
+ on: Option<Vec<(PhysicalExprRef, PhysicalExprRef)>>,
Review Comment:
Looks like current nlj already supports null_equal_null 😂
```
> explain SELECT
*
FROM
(VALUES (1, 'Apple'), (2, 'Banana'), (NULL, 'Cherry')) AS i(id, name)
JOIN
(VALUES (1, 'Fruit'), (3, 'Vegetable'), (NULL, 'Unknown')) AS c(id,
category)
ON
i.id <=> c.id;
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------------+
| plan_type | plan
|
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------------+
| physical_plan | ┌───────────────────────────┐
|
| | │ NestedLoopJoinExec ├──────────────┐
|
| | └─────────────┬─────────────┘ │
|
| | ┌─────────────┴─────────────┐┌─────────────┴─────────────┐
|
| | │ ProjectionExec ││ ProjectionExec │
|
| | │ -------------------- ││ -------------------- │
|
| | │ id: column1 ││ category: column2 │
|
| | │ name: column2 ││ id: column1 │
|
| | └─────────────┬─────────────┘└─────────────┬─────────────┘
|
| | ┌─────────────┴─────────────┐┌─────────────┴─────────────┐
|
| | │ DataSourceExec ││ DataSourceExec │
|
| | │ -------------------- ││ -------------------- │
|
| | │ bytes: 1400 ││ bytes: 1400 │
|
| | │ format: memory ││ format: memory │
|
| | │ rows: 1 ││ rows: 1 │
|
| | └───────────────────────────┘└───────────────────────────┘
|
| |
|
+---------------+------------------------------------------------------------+
1 row(s) fetched.
Elapsed 0.001 seconds.
> SELECT
*
FROM
(VALUES (1, 'Apple'), (2, 'Banana'), (NULL, 'Cherry')) AS i(id, name)
JOIN
(VALUES (1, 'Fruit'), (3, 'Vegetable'), (NULL, 'Unknown')) AS c(id,
category)
ON
i.id <=> c.id;
+------+--------+------+----------+
| id | name | id | category |
+------+--------+------+----------+
| 1 | Apple | 1 | Fruit |
| NULL | Cherry | NULL | Unknown |
+------+--------+------+----------+
2 row(s) fetched.
Elapsed 0.001 seconds.
```
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