Description
The source query and its explicitly materialized rewrite are equivalent: the
materialized relation contains exactly the rows produced by the EXISTS
subquery. That relation is empty, so both forms must produce eight
NULL-complemented rows from the RIGHT JOIN.
AliSQL instead returns sixteen matched rows for the source query. Materializing
the filtered EXISTS input with CTAS restores the correct result. Disabling
either semijoin or optimizer materialization also fixes the source query.
Expected result
Both forms should return 8 | 8 | NULL.
Actual result
source query: 16 | 0 | 36
materialized query: 8 | 8 | NULL
How to repeat
DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS alisql_exists_semijoin_repro;
CREATE DATABASE alisql_exists_semijoin_repro;
USE alisql_exists_semijoin_repro;
CREATE TABLE a (x INT, s LONGTEXT);
CREATE TABLE b (y TINYINT);
CREATE TABLE r (z INT, v VARCHAR(10));
CREATE TABLE e (w INT PRIMARY KEY);
INSERT INTO a VALUES (1, 'a'), (2, 'b');
INSERT INTO b VALUES (36);
INSERT INTO r VALUES
(1, 'x'), (2, 'x'), (3, 'x'), (4, 'x'),
(5, 'x'), (6, 'x'), (7, 'x'), (8, 'x');
INSERT INTO e VALUES (1), (2), (3);
-- Source query: incorrectly returns 16, 0, 36.
SELECT COUNT(*) AS row_count,
SUM(b.y IS NULL) AS null_b_rows,
MIN(b.y) AS min_b
FROM a
CROSS JOIN b ON EXISTS (
SELECT 1
FROM e
WHERE NOT e.w / NULLIF(e.w, 0) >= 0
)
RIGHT JOIN r ON a.s <> r.v;
-- Materialize the empty input relation.
CREATE TABLE vect_cut_e AS
SELECT w
FROM e
WHERE NOT w / NULLIF(w, 0) >= 0;
SELECT COUNT(*) AS cut_rows FROM vect_cut_e;
-- Materialized rewrite: correctly returns 8, 8, NULL.
SELECT COUNT(*) AS row_count,
SUM(b.y IS NULL) AS null_b_rows,
MIN(b.y) AS min_b
FROM a
CROSS JOIN b ON EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM vect_cut_e)
RIGHT JOIN r ON a.s <> r.v;
Version
AliSQL version: 8.0.44-2-alisql-dev
Docker image: songhuaxiong/alisql:8.0.44-2
Test date: 2026-09-02
Description
The source query and its explicitly materialized rewrite are equivalent: the
materialized relation contains exactly the rows produced by the
EXISTSsubquery. That relation is empty, so both forms must produce eight
NULL-complemented rows from the
RIGHT JOIN.AliSQL instead returns sixteen matched rows for the source query. Materializing
the filtered
EXISTSinput with CTAS restores the correct result. Disablingeither
semijoinor optimizermaterializationalso fixes the source query.Expected result
Both forms should return
8 | 8 | NULL.Actual result
How to repeat
Version