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Add support for common table expressions #14321

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ANSI SQL has had support for WITH and common table expressions since SQL-99, and MySQL added support in the 8.0 release, so it's about time Vitess supports it.

This PR adds tentative support for WITH and CTEs. The approach I have taken is to rewrite the CTE into derived tables before the actual planning starts.

In this PR, only SELECT and UNION support WITH.

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Part of solving #4099

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@systay systay force-pushed the cte branch 2 times, most recently from d9ba97f to f7bd9e0 Compare October 24, 2023 11:29
@systay systay changed the title ... Add support for common table expressions Oct 24, 2023
@systay systay added Type: Enhancement Logical improvement (somewhere between a bug and feature) Component: Query Serving and removed NeedsDescriptionUpdate The description is not clear or comprehensive enough, and needs work NeedsWebsiteDocsUpdate What it says NeedsIssue A linked issue is missing for this Pull Request labels Oct 24, 2023
Signed-off-by: Andres Taylor <[email protected]>
@systay systay marked this pull request as ready for review October 24, 2023 12:26
"Sharded": true
},
"FieldQuery": "select id, foo, weight_string(id), weight_string(foo) from (select id, foo from (select id, foo from `user` where 1 != 1) as x where 1 != 1 union select id, foo from (select id, foo from `user` where 1 != 1) as x where 1 != 1) as dt where 1 != 1",
"Query": "select id, foo, weight_string(id), weight_string(foo) from (select id, foo from (select id, foo from `user`) as x union select id, foo from (select id, foo from `user`) as x) as dt",
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Can't we simplify this:

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"Query": "select id, foo, weight_string(id), weight_string(foo) from (select id, foo from (select id, foo from `user`) as x union select id, foo from (select id, foo from `user`) as x) as dt",
"Query": "select id, foo, weight_string(id), weight_string(foo) from (select id, foo from `user`) as x union select id, foo, weight_string(id), weight_string(foo) from (select id, foo from `user`) as x"

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{
"comment": "CTEs cant use a table with the same name as the CTE alias",
"query": "with user as (select aa from user where user.id=1) select ref.col from ref join user",
"plan": "VT12001: unsupported: do not support CTE that use the CTE alias inside the CTE query"
}
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Any plan on supporting this? Also, is the case where the table name is prefixed with the database identifier unsupported? (i.e.: with user as (select aa from user where user.id=1) select ref.col from ref join my_db.user)

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yeah, long term I think we want much better support for CTEs. instead of rewriting them to derived tables they should be first hand citizens, so that the parts of a query that we push down to MySQL uses CTE if the original query used a CTE, and even supporting recursive CTEs using a new engine primitive

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that makes sense!

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Left a few questions, nits and suggestions. Approving this for now as there is nothing major blocking this for me. Really excited about this, thank you 🚀

Signed-off-by: Andres Taylor <[email protected]>
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Still looks good to me after the last few changes.

Signed-off-by: Andres Taylor <[email protected]>
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"comment": "with t as (select count(*) as a from user) select a from t",
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nit: can all the cases have comments about what is getting tested?

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lgtm

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the right of join route can be improvement as it is using sharding key in where condition.

{
          "QueryType": "SELECT",
          "Original": "with x as (select * from authoritative) select music.id, x.col1 from music join x on music.id = x.user_id",
          "Instructions": {
            "OperatorType": "Join",
            "Variant": "Join",
            "JoinColumnIndexes": "L:0,R:0",
            "JoinVars": {
              "music_id": 0
            },
            "TableName": "music_authoritative",
            "Inputs": [
              {
                "OperatorType": "Route",
                "Variant": "Scatter",
                "Keyspace": {
                  "Name": "user",
                  "Sharded": true
                },
                "FieldQuery": "select music.id from music where 1 != 1",
                "Query": "select music.id from music",
                "Table": "music"
              },
              {
                "OperatorType": "Route",
                "Variant": "Scatter",
                "Keyspace": {
                  "Name": "user",
                  "Sharded": true
                },
                "FieldQuery": "select x.col1 from (select user_id, col1, col2 from authoritative where 1 != 1) as x where 1 != 1",
                "Query": "select x.col1 from (select user_id, col1, col2 from authoritative where user_id = :music_id) as x",
                "Table": "authoritative"
              }
            ]
          },
          "TablesUsed": [
            "user.authoritative",
            "user.music"
          ]
        }

@systay systay merged commit eddb7da into vitessio:main Oct 31, 2023
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@systay systay deleted the cte branch October 31, 2023 06:47
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