[DRILL-4201] DrillPushFilterPastProject should allow partial filter pushdown.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Component/s: Query Planning & Optimization
• Assignee: Jinfeng Ni
• Reporter: Jinfeng Ni
• Reviewer: Victoria Markman
• Created: 15/Dec/15 21:43
• Updated: 15/Feb/16 17:17
• Resolved: 22/Dec/15 20:52

Description

Currently, DrillPushFilterPastProjectRule will stop pushing the filter down, if the filter itself has ITEM or FLATTEN function, or its input reference is referring to an ITEM or FLATTEN function. However, in case that the filter is a conjunction of multiple sub-filters, some of them refer to ITEM or FLATTEN but the other not, then we should allow partial filter to be pushed down. For instance,

WHERE partition_col > 10 and flatten_output_col = 'ABC'.

The "flatten_output_col" comes from the output of FLATTEN operator, and therefore flatten_output_col = 'ABC' should not pushed past the project. But partiion_col > 10 should be pushed down, such that we could trigger the pruning rule to apply partition pruning.

It would be improve Drill query performance, when the partially pushed filter leads to partition pruning, or the partially pushed filter results in early filtering in upstream operator.