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Julian Hyde commented on CALCITE-5894:
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[~libenchao], Yes, it seems likely to me also, that this optimization can be 
applied to those cases. And also “SELECT DISTINCT”, which is syntactic sugar 
for “GROUP BY” but frequently contains many dependent columns.

Set operations (INTERSECT, UNION, EXCEPT) could possibly also benefit. 

> Add SortRemoveRedundantRule to remove redundant sort fields if they are 
> functionally dependent by other sort fields
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CALCITE-5894
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-5894
>             Project: Calcite
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: JingDas
>            Assignee: JingDas
>            Priority: Minor
>
> In some scene, Sort fields can be reduct, if sort fields contain unique key
> For example
> {code:java}
> SELECT ename, salary FROM Emp
> order by empno, ename{code}
> where `empno` is a key,  `ename` is redundant since `empno` alone is 
> sufficient to determine the order of any two records.
> So the SQL can be optimized as following:
> {code:java}
> SELECT name, Emp.salary FROM Emp
> order by empno{code}
> For another example:
> {code:java}
> SELECT e_agg.c, e_agg.ename
> FROM
> (SELECT count(*) as c, ename, job FROM Emp GROUP BY ename, job) AS e_agg
> ORDER BY e_agg.ename, e_agg.c {code}
> Although `e_agg.ename` is not a key but field `ename` is unique and not null, 
> it can be optimized as following:
> {code:java}
> SELECT e_agg.c, e_agg.ename
> FROM (SELECT count(*) as c, ename, job FROM Emp GROUP BY ename, job) AS e_agg
> ORDER BY e_agg.ename{code}
> Sorting is an expensive operation, however. Therefore, it is imperative that 
> sorting
> is optimized to avoid unnecessary sort field.
>  



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