Github user sathiyapk commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/19451#discussion_r146384601 --- Diff: sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/optimizer/ReplaceExceptWithFilter.scala --- @@ -0,0 +1,114 @@ +/* + * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more + * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with + * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. + * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 + * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with + * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at + * + * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 + * + * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software + * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, + * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. + * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and + * limitations under the License. + */ + +package org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.optimizer + +import scala.annotation.tailrec + +import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.expressions._ +import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.plans.logical._ +import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.rules.Rule + + +/** + * If one or both of the datasets in the logical [[Except]] operator are purely transformed using + * [[Filter]], this rule will replace logical [[Except]] operator with a [[Filter]] operator by + * flipping the filter condition of the right child. + * {{{ + * SELECT a1, a2 FROM Tab1 WHERE a2 = 12 EXCEPT SELECT a1, a2 FROM Tab1 WHERE a1 = 5 + * ==> SELECT DISTINCT a1, a2 FROM Tab1 WHERE a2 = 12 AND (a1 is null OR a1 <> 5) + * }}} + * + * Note: + * Before flipping the filter condition of the right node, we should: + * 1. Combine all it's [[Filter]]. + * 2. Apply InferFiltersFromConstraints rule (to support NULL values of the condition). + */ +object ReplaceExceptWithFilter extends Rule[LogicalPlan] { + + def apply(plan: LogicalPlan): LogicalPlan = plan transform { --- End diff -- You mean to add something like below in the catalyst `org.apache.spark.sql.internal.SQLConf` ? ```scala val REPLACE_EXCEPT_WITH_FILTER = buildConf("spark.sql.optimizer.replaceExceptWithFilter") .doc("When true, the apply function of the rule verifies, whether the right node of the except operation is of type Project followed Filter or Filter. If yes, the rule further verifies 1) Excluding the filter operations from the right (as well as the left node, if any) on the top, whether both the nodes evaluates to a same result by using the same project list if the top node is of type project, otherwise node.output. Remember a project list may contain a SubqueryExpression, so it is necessary to check it using projection 2) The filter condition don't contains any SubqueryExpression. If all the conditions are met, the rule will replace the except operation with a Filter operation by flipping the filter condition of the right node.") .booleanConf .createWithDefault(true) ``` and ```scala def replaceExceptWithFilter: Boolean = getConf(REPLACE_EXCEPT_WITH_FILTER) ```
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