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feat: support Set Comparison Subquery#19109

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Which issue does this PR close?

Rationale for this change

Support Set Comparison Subquery (or Quantified Comparison Subquery in some systems), it looks like

... WHERE t1.a > ANY(SELECT ... FROM t2) ...

or

... WHERE t1.a < ALL(SELECT ... FROM t2) ...

What changes are included in this PR?

  • New Expr branch Expr::SetComparison and corresponding SetComparison struct
  • New optimizer rule RewriteSetComparison to translate this kind of subquery using existing components
  • Corresponding substrait and proto changes

RewriteSetComparison is a very naive implementation. We can optimize it in various ways in the follow-up PRs, like using min/max for non-equal comparison operators etc.

Are these changes tested?

Yes, by unit test and slt

Are there any user-facing changes?

To SQL user, this is a new feature. To API user, ExprPlanner::plan_any is removed (not needed)

Signed-off-by: Ruihang Xia <waynestxia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ruihang Xia <waynestxia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ruihang Xia <waynestxia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ruihang Xia <waynestxia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ruihang Xia <waynestxia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ruihang Xia <waynestxia@gmail.com>
@github-actions github-actions Bot added sql SQL Planner logical-expr Logical plan and expressions optimizer Optimizer rules core Core DataFusion crate sqllogictest SQL Logic Tests (.slt) substrait Changes to the substrait crate catalog Related to the catalog crate execution Related to the execution crate proto Related to proto crate labels Dec 5, 2025
@github-actions github-actions Bot removed the execution Related to the execution crate label Dec 6, 2025
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Thanks for your contribution.

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async fn set_comparison_all_empty() -> Result<()> {
let ctx = SessionContext::new();
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how about adding

async fn set_comparison_type_mismatch() -> Result<()> {
    // SELECT v FROM t WHERE v > ANY (SELECT s FROM strings)
    // INT > STRING should error with clear message

...

too?

)?;

let df = ctx
.sql("select v from t where v < all(select v from e)")
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I think tests for:

  • Multiple operators (=, !=, >=, <=)
  • NULL semantics (e.g., 5 != ALL (1, NULL)
    would improve test coverage

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Thank you @kosiew, I added above cases in 07e23bd

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Thanks for the ping.
I will check again after you fix the clippy errors.

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Hi @kosiew, CI is all green now, please take another look, thank you!

@github-actions github-actions Bot added the common Related to common crate label Jan 5, 2026
Signed-off-by: Ruihang Xia <waynestxia@gmail.com>
@github-actions github-actions Bot removed the common Related to common crate label Jan 5, 2026
Signed-off-by: Ruihang Xia <waynestxia@gmail.com>
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// Grow stacker segments earlier to avoid deep unparser recursion overflow in q20.
set_minimum_stack_size(512 * 1024);
set_stack_allocation_size(8 * 1024 * 1024);
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This case got stack overflow after I rebased against the latest main branch, and this is a workaround. I'm thinking of rewriting unparser to avoid deep nested recursion, to some iterative flavor in the follow-up PR.

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Let's create an issue to track this.

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created #19787

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LGTM

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Thank you @kosiew ❤️ I'm going to merge this tomorrow if there are no other comments

@waynexia waynexia added this pull request to the merge queue Jan 14, 2026
Merged via the queue into apache:main with commit 79869a7 Jan 14, 2026
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fsaintjacques pushed a commit to fsaintjacques/datafusion that referenced this pull request Feb 8, 2026
Add a new `Expr::ArraySubquery(Subquery)` expression variant to
represent SQL `ARRAY(SELECT ...)` subqueries. This is the first step
toward supporting correlated array subqueries (e.g. BigQuery-style
`ARRAY(SELECT x FROM UNNEST(arr) WHERE cond)`).

This commit adds the variant and all required exhaustive match arms
across the codebase, following the same pattern as `SetComparison`
(added in apache#19109). No SQL parsing or optimizer rewrite is included
yet — those will follow in subsequent commits.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
de-bgunter pushed a commit to de-bgunter/datafusion that referenced this pull request Mar 24, 2026
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- Closes apache#19082.

## Rationale for this change

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Support Set Comparison Subquery (or Quantified Comparison Subquery in
some systems), it looks like

```sql
... WHERE t1.a > ANY(SELECT ... FROM t2) ...
```
or 
```sql
... WHERE t1.a < ALL(SELECT ... FROM t2) ...
```

## What changes are included in this PR?

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is sometimes worth providing a summary of the individual changes in this
PR.
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- New `Expr` branch `Expr::SetComparison` and corresponding
`SetComparison` struct
- New optimizer rule `RewriteSetComparison` to translate this kind of
subquery using existing components
- Corresponding substrait and proto changes

`RewriteSetComparison` is a very naive implementation. We can optimize
it in various ways in the follow-up PRs, like using min/max for
non-equal comparison operators etc.

## Are these changes tested?

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Yes, by unit test and slt

## Are there any user-facing changes?

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updated before approving the PR.
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To SQL user, this is a new feature. To API user, `ExprPlanner::plan_any`
is removed (not needed)

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Signed-off-by: Ruihang Xia <waynestxia@gmail.com>
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Feature request: support non-equal quantified subquery

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