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Subject: [GitHub] incubator-madlib pull request #54: Pivoting: Phase 2
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Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 20:36:00 +0000 (UTC)
archived-at: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 20:36:06 -0000

Github user iyerr3 commented on a diff in the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/incubator-madlib/pull/54#discussion_r72856491
  
    --- Diff: src/ports/postgres/modules/utilities/pivot.py_in ---
    @@ -58,66 +61,256 @@ def pivot(schema_madlib, source_table, out_table,
                                     pivoted table
             @param aggregate_func   The aggregate function to be applied to the
                                     values
    +        @param fill_value       If specified, determines how to fill NULL
    +                                values resulting from pivot operation
    +        @param keep_null        The flag for determining how to handle NULL
    +                                values in pivot columns
         """
    -
         """
         Assume we have the following table
             pivset( id INTEGER, piv FLOAT8, val FLOAT8 )
    -    where the piv column has 3 distinct values (10.0, 20.0 and 30.0).
    +    where the piv column has 3 distinct values (10, 20 and 30).
         If the pivot function call is :
             SELECT madlib.pivot('pivset', 'pivout', 'id', 'piv', 'val');
         We want to construct the following sql code to pivot the table.
             CREATE TABLE pivout AS (SELECT id,
    -        sum(CASE WHEN "piv" = '10.0' THEN val ELSE NULL END ) as "piv_10.0",
    -        sum(CASE WHEN "piv" = '20.0' THEN val ELSE NULL END ) as "piv_20.0",
    -        sum(CASE WHEN "piv" = '30.0' THEN val ELSE NULL END ) as "piv_30.0"
    +        avg(CASE WHEN "piv" = '10' THEN val ELSE NULL END ) as "val_avg_piv_10",
    +        avg(CASE WHEN "piv" = '20' THEN val ELSE NULL END ) as "val_avg_piv_20",
    +        avg(CASE WHEN "piv" = '30' THEN val ELSE NULL END ) as "val_avg_piv_30"
             FROM pivset GROUP BY id ORDER BY id)
     
         """
    +
    +    # If there are more than 1000 columns for the output table, we give a
    +    # warning as it might give an error.
    +    MAX_OUTPUT_COLUMN_COUNT = 1000
    +
    +    # If a column name has more than 63 characters it gets trimmed automaticly,
    +    # which may cause an exception. We enable the output dictionary in this case
    +    MAX_COLUMN_LENGTH = 63
    +
         indices = split_quoted_delimited_str(index)
    -    pcol = split_quoted_delimited_str(pivot_cols)
    -    pval = split_quoted_delimited_str(pivot_values)
    -    validate_pivot_coding(source_table, out_table, indices, pcol, pval)
    -    new_col_names =[]
    -    sql_list = ["CREATE TABLE " + out_table + " AS (SELECT " + index]
    +    pcols = split_quoted_delimited_str(pivot_cols)
    +    pvals = split_quoted_delimited_str(pivot_values)
    +    validate_pivot_coding(source_table, out_table, indices, pcols, pvals)
    +
    +    # Strip end quotes from pivot columns
    +    pcols = [strip_end_quotes(pcol.strip()) for pcol in pcols]
    +    pvals = [strip_end_quotes(pval.strip()) for pval in pvals]
    +
    +    # Parse the aggregate_func as a dictionary
    +    try:
    +        param_types = dict.fromkeys(pvals, list)
    +        agg_dict = extract_keyvalue_params(aggregate_func,param_types)
    +    except KeyError, e:
    +        with MinWarning("warning"):
    +            plpy.warning("Pivot: Not all columns from '{aggregate_func}'"
    +            " present in '{pivot_values}'".format(**locals()))
    +            raise
    +
    +    # If the dictionary is empty, parse it as a list
    +    agg_set = split_quoted_delimited_str(aggregate_func) if not agg_dict else []
     
    -    pcol_no_quotes = strip_end_quotes(pcol[0].strip())
    -    pval_no_quotes = strip_end_quotes(pval[0].strip())
    +    # __madlib_pivot_def_agg__ denotes the aggregate function(s) if the user
    +    # does not specify a value: aggregate dictionary
    +    # If no aggregates are given, set average as default
    +    agg_dict['__madlib_pivot_def_agg__'] = ['avg'] if not agg_set else agg_set
     
         # Find the distinct values of pivot_cols
    -    distinct_values = plpy.execute(
    -        "SELECT array_agg(DISTINCT {pcol} ORDER BY {pcol}) AS value "
    -        "FROM {source_table}".
    -        format(pcol=pcol[0], source_table=source_table))
    -
    -    distinct_values = [strip_end_quotes(item)
    -                        for item in distinct_values[0]['value']]
    -    # The aggregate collects pivot_values values for a given pivot_cols value
    -    case_str = ("{agg}("
    -                "CASE WHEN \"{{pcol}}\" = '{{value}}' THEN {pval} ELSE NULL END"
    -                ")".
    -                format(agg=aggregate_func,
    -                       pval=pval_no_quotes))
    -    sql_list.append(
    -        ", " +
    -        # Assign the name of the new column
    -        ', '.join("{case_str} as \"{{pcol}}_{{value}}\"".
    -                  format(case_str=case_str).
    -                  format(pcol=pcol_no_quotes, value=str(value))
    -                  for value in distinct_values if value is not None))
    +    # Note that the distinct values are appended in order of users list
    +    # This ordering is important when we access pivot_comb entries
    +    array_agg_str = ', '.join("array_agg(DISTINCT {pcol}) AS {pcol}_values".
    +        format(pcol=pcol) for pcol in pcols)
    +
    +    null_str = ""
    +    if keep_null:
    +        # Create an additional column for every pivot column
    +        # If there is a null value, this column will get True
    +        null_str = ","+', '.join(
    +            "bool_or(CASE WHEN {pcol} IS NULL THEN True END)"
    +            "AS {pcol}_isnull".format(pcol=pcol) for pcol in pcols)
    +
    +    distinct_values = plpy.execute("SELECT {0} {1} FROM {2}".
    +        format(array_agg_str, null_str, source_table))
    +
    +    # Collect the distinct values for every pivot column
    +    pcol_distinct_values = {}
    +    pcol_max_length = 0
    +    for pcol in pcols:
    +        # Read the distinct values for this pcol
    +        pcol_tmp = [item for item in distinct_values[0][pcol+"_values"]]
    +        # Remove null values if keep null is not true
    +        if not keep_null:
    +            pcol_tmp = [x for x in pcol_tmp if x is not None]
    +        elif distinct_values[0][pcol+"_isnull"] and None not in pcol_tmp:
    +            pcol_tmp.append(None)
    +
    +        pcol_distinct_values[pcol]=sorted(pcol_tmp)
    +        # Max length of the string that pcol values can create +
    +        # length of pcol + 1 (for _ character)
    +        pcol_max_length+=max([len(str(item)) for item in pcol_tmp])+len(pcol)+1
    +
    +    # Create the combination of every possible pivot column
    +    # Assume piv and piv2 are pivot columns. piv=(1,2) and piv2=(3,4,5)
    +    # pivot_comb = ((1,3),(1,4),(1,5),(2,3),(2,4),(2,5))
    +    pivot_comb = list(itertools.product(*([pcol_distinct_values[pcol]
    +        for pcol in pcols])))
    +    #Prepare the wrapper for fill value
    +    fill_str_begin = ""
    +    fill_str_end = ""
    +    if fill_value is not None:
    +        fill_str_begin = " COALESCE("
    +        fill_str_end = ", "+fill_value+" ) "
    +
    +    # Check the max possible length of a output column name
    +    # If it is over 63 (psql upper limit) create table lookup
    +    for pval in pvals:
    +
    +        col_name_len = pcol_max_length+len(pval)+1
    +        try:
    +            # If user specifies a list of aggregates for a value column
    +            # Every value column has to have an entry
    +            agg_func = agg_dict[pval] if len(agg_dict) > 1 else \
    --- End diff --
    
    I see. I got confused with this. So a user can't add some values in the agg_dict expecting default for the rest?


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