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Normalise associative operations
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
Associative operations are operations whose chaining can be done as (a op b) op c
or a op (b op c)
without changing the result. Examples of such operations are:
-
+
-
*
-
AND
-
OR
In order to simplify all of these pattern replacements, we normalise associative ops to always flatten tree structures into lists.
Using Settings.transformPatternsNormaliseAssociativeOps, the following transformations can be achieved:
-- With Settings.transformPatternsNormaliseAssociativeOps active, this: SELECT (a + b) + (c + d), (a * b) * (c * d), (a AND b) AND (c AND d), (a OR b) OR (c OR d) FROM tab; -- ... is transformed into the equivalent expression: SELECT ((a + b) + c) + d, -- (a + b) + (c + d) ((a + b) + c) + d, -- (a * b) * (c * d) ((a AND b) AND c) AND d, -- (a AND b) AND (c AND d) ((a OR b) OR c) OR d -- (a OR b) OR (c OR d) FROM tab;
Note that the unnecesary parentheses may not be generated in either case, but the in-memory data structure still looks as though the parentheses were there.
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