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From: "Rick Hillegas (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] [Commented] (DERBY-6267) Add ability to compactly specify a
 complete query plan in an optimizer override.
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Rick Hillegas commented on DERBY-6267:
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Thanks for that feedback, Dag. Documenting the compact overrides on the wiki would be a good next step. Material on the wiki is often hard to find because the wiki doesn't have a comprehensive table of contents or index. But I could point this issue at the wiki documentation. That might help. Thanks.
                
> Add ability to compactly specify a complete query plan in an optimizer override.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: DERBY-6267
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-6267
>             Project: Derby
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: SQL
>    Affects Versions: 10.11.0.0
>            Reporter: Rick Hillegas
>              Labels: derby_triage10_11
>         Attachments: derby-6267-01-ac-compactSyntax.diff, derby-6267-01-ad-compactSyntax.diff, derby-6267-01-ae-compactSyntax.diff, derby-6267-02-aa-moreTests.diff, derby-6267-03-aa-moreSubqueryTests.diff, derby-6267-04-aa-fetchOffsetTest.diff
>
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> It would be nice to be able to override the optimizer's choice and specify a complete query plan using the compact summary syntax output by XMLOptTrace. Given how the optimizer handles a statement, this would require binding a query plan at the query block level. Two obvious candidates for such a feature are:
> 1) Extend the use of DERBY-PROPERTIES in the comments of a query.
> 2) Add an extra clause to query blocks. The clause would have to be a clearly marked Derby extension.
> (1) might look like this (here we add a new "fullQueryPlan" property):
> select tablename from sys.systables t, sys.syscolumns c, sys.sysaliases a
> where t.tablename = c.columnname and c.columnname = a.alias
> -- DERBY-PROPERTIES fullQueryPlan = (SYSCOLUMNS_HEAP # SYSALIASES_INDEX1) # SYSTABLES_INDEX1
> union all
> select tablename from sys.systables t, sys.syscolumns c, sys.sysaliases a, sys.syssequences s
> where t.tablename = c.columnname and c.columnname = a.alias and a.alias = s.sequencename
> -- DERBY-PROPERTIES fullQueryPlan = ((SYSCOLUMNS_HEAP # SYSTABLES_INDEX1) # SYSALIASES_INDEX1) # SYSSEQUENCES_INDEX2
> ;
> (2) might look like this (here we add a new "using derby join order" clause):
> select tablename from sys.systables t, sys.syscolumns c, sys.sysaliases a
> where t.tablename = c.columnname and c.columnname = a.alias
> using derby join order (SYSCOLUMNS_HEAP # SYSALIASES_INDEX1) # SYSTABLES_INDEX1
> union all
> select tablename from sys.systables t, sys.syscolumns c, sys.sysaliases a, sys.syssequences s
> where t.tablename = c.columnname and c.columnname = a.alias and a.alias = s.sequencename
> using derby join order  ((SYSCOLUMNS_HEAP # SYSTABLES_INDEX1) # SYSALIASES_INDEX1) # SYSSEQUENCES_INDEX2
> ;
> Here's a comparison of these approaches:
> (1)
> + Portability: the same query text can be used against different RDBMSes.
> - Parsing of DERBY-PROPERTIES happens outside the grammer.
> (2)
> + Parsing happens in the parser.
> - Not portable.
> I slightly prefer approach (1). If I pursue that approach, I would like to see if I can move the parsing into the parser.
> I am interested in other opinions about how to address this feature. Thanks.

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