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docs(analyzer): add detailed TODO for GMS case asymmetry
Added 2 TODOs for GMS case asymmetry issue which forces us to currently compare on strings.ToLower in ResolveValuesTypes()'s second pass: one in the implementation area itself and the corresponding test we had to skip due to this issue. Refs: #1648
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server/analyzer/resolve_values_types.go

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@@ -131,10 +131,31 @@ func ResolveValuesTypes(ctx *sql.Context, a *analyzer.Analyzer, node sql.Node, s
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for _, child := range n.Children() {
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childSchema = append(childSchema, child.Schema()...)
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}
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// Find the matching column by name and update if the type changed.
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// Use case-insensitive matching here because internally generated
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// names (e.g., aggregate results like "sum(v.n)") may differ in
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// casing between the GetField and the child schema.
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// TODO: resolve GMS case asymmetry issues.
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// GMS has a casing asymmetry for aggregate names that forces
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// case-insensitive matching here. GMS's Builder.buildAggregateFunc()
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// in planbuilder/aggregates.go lowercases the entire aggregate
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// name producing "sum(v.n)", but GroupBy.Schema() in
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// plan/group_by.go keeps original casing from e.String()
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// producing "SUM(v.n)". Without strings.ToLower, the match
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// fails silently and aggregate type propagation breaks, causing
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// runtime panics (interface conversion: interface {} is
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// decimal.Decimal, not int32).
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//
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// We can't use non-name matching because sql.Column has no
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// ColumnId field, so there is nothing on the child schema side
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// to match against GetField.Id(). Name is the only shared
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// identifier.
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//
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// This causes a known false-match when two quoted column names
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// differ only by case (e.g., "Val" vs "val"), since the
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// planbuilder has already lowered both to the same GetField
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// name. GMS originated as a MySQL engine where identifiers are
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// case-insensitive, but Postgres requires case-sensitivity for
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// quoted identifiers. A proper fix requires structured
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// case-sensitivity discrimination in GMS, either by adding
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// ColumnId to sql.Column or by fixing the casing asymmetry in
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// Builder.buildAggregateFunc() and GroupBy.Schema().
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gfName := strings.ToLower(gf.Name())
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for _, col := range childSchema {
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if strings.ToLower(col.Name) == gfName && gf.Type() != col.Type {

testing/go/values_statement_test.go

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@@ -558,12 +558,15 @@ var ValuesStatementTests = []ScriptTest{
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Name: "VALUES with case-differing quoted columns and aggregates",
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Assertions: []ScriptTestAssertion{
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{
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// Two columns whose quoted names differ only by case.
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// Column "Val" has mixed types (int4, numeric) -> unifies to numeric.
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// Column "val" has same types (int4, int4) -> stays int4.
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// SUM("Val") should return numeric, SUM("val") should return int8.
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// This catches false matches if the second pass uses case-insensitive
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// matching: both SUM(v.Val) and SUM(v.val) would collide after lowering.
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// TODO: resolve GMS case asymmetry issues.
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// Builder.buildAggregateFunc() in planbuilder/aggregates.go
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// lowercases entire aggregate names, so SUM("Val") and
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// SUM("val") both become "sum(v.val)" in the GetField. The
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// second pass in ResolveValuesTypes must use strings.ToLower
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// to match against GroupBy.Schema() which keeps original
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// casing. This causes a false match when two columns differ
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// only by case. See resolve_values_types.go for details.
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Skip: true,
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Query: `SELECT SUM("Val"), SUM("val") FROM (VALUES(1, 10),(2.5, 20)) v("Val", "val");`,
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Expected: []sql.Row{
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{Numeric("3.5"), int64(30)},

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