Blizzara commented on code in PR #17299: URL: https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/17299#discussion_r2323707179
########## datafusion/substrait/src/logical_plan/consumer/rel/project_rel.rs: ########## @@ -62,7 +62,17 @@ pub async fn from_project_rel( // to transform it into a column reference window_exprs.insert(e.clone()); } - explicit_exprs.push(name_tracker.get_uniquely_named_expr(e)?); + // Since substrait removes aliases, we need to assign literals with a UUID alias to avoid + // ambiguous names when the same literal is used before and after a join. + // The name tracker will ensure that two literals in the same project would have + // unique names but, it does not ensure that if a literal column exists in a previous + // project say before a join that it is deduplicated with respect to those columns. Review Comment: I think the problem is the NameTracker doesn't ignore qualifiers, but the "ambiguous schema" check does. Thus if the input to the Project has e.g. "table1.NULL" column and adds a "NULL" column (from `lit(NULL)`), the NameTracker doesn't rename the newly added column, and then we get both `table1.NULL` and `NULL` columns which fails the ambiguous check. I think my recommendation would be to make the NameTracker more robust instead, so that it ignores the qualifiers at least when there is also a non-qualified name. While this UUID-aliasing of literals seems like it should work for this specific case, I can imagine there might be some other case where the clash happens with non-literal columns (though I'm not able to come up with an example right now). (Also hey 👋 @xanderbailey!) -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: github-unsubscr...@datafusion.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: github-unsubscr...@datafusion.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: github-h...@datafusion.apache.org