Dear all, I created two tables.
scala> spark.sql("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS table1(id string, val string) USING PARQUET"); 19/06/14 23:49:10 WARN ObjectStore: Version information not found in metastore. hive.metastore.schema.verification is not enabled so recording the schema version 1.2.0 19/06/14 23:49:11 WARN ObjectStore: Failed to get database default, returning NoSuchObjectException res1: org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame = [] scala> spark.sql("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS table2(id string, val string) USING PARQUET"); res2: org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame = [] It is the plan of joining these two column via ID column. It looks good to me as the filter 'id ='a'' is pushed to both tables as expected. scala> spark.sql("SELECT * FROM table2 t1, table2 t2 WHERE t1.id = t2.id AND t1.id ='a'").explain == Physical Plan == *(2) BroadcastHashJoin [id#23], [id#68], Inner, BuildRight :- *(2) Project [id#23, val#24] : +- *(2) Filter (isnotnull(id#23) && (id#23 = a)) : +- *(2) FileScan parquet default.table2[id#23,val#24] Batched: true, Format: Parquet, Location: InMemoryFileIndex[file:/Users/williamwong/spark-warehouse/table2], *PartitionFilters: [], PushedFilters: [IsNotNull(id), EqualTo(id,a)],* ReadSchema: struct<id:string,val:string> +- BroadcastExchange HashedRelationBroadcastMode(List(input[0, string, true])) +- *(1) Project [id#68, val#69] +- *(1) Filter ((id#68 = a) && isnotnull(id#68)) +- *(1) FileScan parquet default.table2[id#68,val#69] Batched: true, Format: Parquet, Location: InMemoryFileIndex[file:/Users/williamwong/spark-warehouse/table2], *PartitionFilters: [], PushedFilters: [EqualTo(id,a), IsNotNull(id)],* ReadSchema: struct<id:string,val:string> Somehow, we created a view on table1 by union a few partitions like this: scala> spark.sql(""" | CREATE VIEW partitioned_table_1 AS | SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE id = 'a' | UNION ALL | SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE id = 'b' | UNION ALL | SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE id = 'c' | UNION ALL | SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE id NOT IN ('a','b','c') | """.stripMargin) res7: org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame = [] In theory, selecting data via this view 'partitioned_table_1' should be the same as via the table 'table1' This query also can push the filter 'id IN ('a','b','c','d') to table2 as expected. scala> spark.sql("SELECT * FROM partitioned_table_1 t1, table2 t2 WHERE t1.id = t2.id AND t1.id IN ('a','b','c','d')").explain == Physical Plan == *(6) BroadcastHashJoin [id#0], [id#23], Inner, BuildRight :- Union : :- *(1) Project [id#0, val#1] : : +- *(1) Filter ((isnotnull(id#0) && (id#0 = a)) && id#0 IN (a,b,c,d)) : : +- *(1) FileScan parquet default.table1[id#0,val#1] Batched: true, Format: Parquet, Location: InMemoryFileIndex[file:/Users/williamwong/spark-warehouse/table1], PartitionFilters: [], PushedFilters: [IsNotNull(id), EqualTo(id,a), In(id, [a,b,c,d])], ReadSchema: struct<id:string,val:string> : :- *(2) Project [id#0, val#1] : : +- *(2) Filter ((isnotnull(id#0) && (id#0 = b)) && id#0 IN (a,b,c,d)) : : +- *(2) FileScan parquet default.table1[id#0,val#1] Batched: true, Format: Parquet, Location: InMemoryFileIndex[file:/Users/williamwong/spark-warehouse/table1], PartitionFilters: [], PushedFilters: [IsNotNull(id), EqualTo(id,b), In(id, [a,b,c,d])], ReadSchema: struct<id:string,val:string> : :- *(3) Project [id#0, val#1] : : +- *(3) Filter ((isnotnull(id#0) && (id#0 = c)) && id#0 IN (a,b,c,d)) : : +- *(3) FileScan parquet default.table1[id#0,val#1] Batched: true, Format: Parquet, Location: InMemoryFileIndex[file:/Users/williamwong/spark-warehouse/table1], PartitionFilters: [], PushedFilters: [IsNotNull(id), EqualTo(id,c), In(id, [a,b,c,d])], ReadSchema: struct<id:string,val:string> : +- *(4) Project [id#0, val#1] : +- *(4) Filter ((NOT id#0 IN (a,b,c) && id#0 IN (a,b,c,d)) && isnotnull(id#0)) : +- *(4) FileScan parquet default.table1[id#0,val#1] Batched: true, Format: Parquet, Location: InMemoryFileIndex[file:/Users/williamwong/spark-warehouse/table1], PartitionFilters: [], PushedFilters: [Not(In(id, [a,b,c])), In(id, [a,b,c,d]), IsNotNull(id)], ReadSchema: struct<id:string,val:string> +- BroadcastExchange HashedRelationBroadcastMode(List(input[0, string, true])) +- *(5) Project [id#23, val#24] +- *(5) Filter ((id#23 IN (a,b,c,d) && ((isnotnull(id#23) && (((id#23 = a) || (id#23 = b)) || (id#23 = c))) || NOT id#23 IN (a,b,c))) && isnotnull(id#23)) +- *(5) FileScan parquet default.table2[id#23,val#24] Batched: true, Format: Parquet, Location: InMemoryFileIndex[file:/Users/williamwong/spark-warehouse/table2], PartitionFilters: [], *PushedFilters: [In(id, [a,b,c,d]), Or(And(IsNotNull(id),Or(Or(EqualTo(id,a),EqualTo(id,b)),EqualTo(id,c))),Not(I..., *ReadSchema: struct<id:string,val:string> scala> However, if we change the filter to 'id ='a', something strange happened. The filter 'id = 'a' cannot be pushed via table2... scala> spark.sql("SELECT * FROM partitioned_table_1 t1, table2 t2 WHERE t1.id = t2.id AND t1.id = 'a'").explain == Physical Plan == *(4) BroadcastHashJoin [id#0], [id#23], Inner, BuildRight :- Union : :- *(1) Project [id#0, val#1] : : +- *(1) Filter (isnotnull(id#0) && (id#0 = a)) : : +- *(1) FileScan parquet default.table1[id#0,val#1] Batched: true, Format: Parquet, Location: InMemoryFileIndex[file:/Users/williamwong/spark-warehouse/table1], PartitionFilters: [], PushedFilters: [IsNotNull(id), EqualTo(id,a)], ReadSchema: struct<id:string,val:string> : :- LocalTableScan <empty>, [id#0, val#1] : :- LocalTableScan <empty>, [id#0, val#1] : +- *(2) Project [id#0, val#1] : +- *(2) Filter ((isnotnull(id#0) && NOT id#0 IN (a,b,c)) && (id#0 = a)) : +- *(2) FileScan parquet default.table1[id#0,val#1] Batched: true, Format: Parquet, Location: InMemoryFileIndex[file:/Users/williamwong/spark-warehouse/table1], PartitionFilters: [], PushedFilters: [IsNotNull(id), Not(In(id, [a,b,c])), EqualTo(id,a)], ReadSchema: struct<id:string,val:string> +- BroadcastExchange HashedRelationBroadcastMode(List(input[0, string, true])) +- *(3) Project [id#23, val#24] +- *(3) Filter isnotnull(id#23) +- *(3) FileScan parquet default.table2[id#23,val#24] Batched: true, Format: Parquet, Location: InMemoryFileIndex[file:/Users/williamwong/spark-warehouse/table2], PartitionFilters: [], PushedFilters: [IsNotNull(id)], ReadSchema: struct<id:string,val:string> Appreciate if anyone has an idea on it. Many thanks. Best regards, William