Jackie-Jiang commented on a change in pull request #7959: URL: https://github.com/apache/pinot/pull/7959#discussion_r792966519
########## File path: pinot-broker/src/main/java/org/apache/pinot/broker/requesthandler/BaseBrokerRequestHandler.java ########## @@ -1487,6 +1498,46 @@ static void updateColumnNames(String rawTableName, PinotQuery pinotQuery, boolea } } + private static void expandStarExpressionToActualColumns(PinotQuery pinotQuery, Map<String, String> columnNameMap, + Expression selectStarExpr) { + List<Expression> originalSelections = pinotQuery.getSelectList(); + // Avoid using stream apis in query path because we have found that it has poorer performance compared to + // regular apis. + Set<String> originallySelectedColumnNames = new HashSet<>(); + for (Expression originalSelection : originalSelections) { + if (originalSelection.isSetIdentifier()) { + originallySelectedColumnNames.add(originalSelection.getIdentifier().getName()); + } + } + List<Expression> newSelections = new ArrayList<>(); + for (Expression selection : originalSelections) { + if (selection.equals(selectStarExpr)) { + //expand '*' to actual columns, exclude default virtual columns + for (String tableCol : columnNameMap.values()) { + //we exclude default virtual columns and those columns that are already a part of originalSelections (to + // dedup columns that are selected multiple times) Review comment: I feel there is no SQL standard for this. Returning duplicate columns can add extra workload and traffic without providing much value to the user, so I prefer deduping the columns. -- 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: commits-unsubscr...@pinot.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: commits-unsubscr...@pinot.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: commits-h...@pinot.apache.org