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Implicitly LATERAL Table Functions
● Table functions are implicitly LATERAL
– Not allowed to explicitly specify LATERAL
● MySQL has one table function: JSON_TABLE
SELECT people.*
FROM t1,
JSON_TABLE(t1.json_col, '$.people[*]' COLUMNS (
name VARCHAR(40) PATH '$.name',
address VARCHAR(100) PATH '$.address'))
AS people;](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/lateral-derived-tables-in-mysql-80-slideshare-190531163329/85/LATERAL-Derived-Tables-in-MySQL-8-0-7-320.jpg)
LATERAL Derived Tables in MySQL 8.0
- 1. Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. LATERAL Derived Tables in MySQL 8.0 Norvald H. Ryeng Software Development Senior Manager MySQL Optimizer Team May 29, 2019
- 2. 2Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. LATERAL what?
- 3. 3Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Derived Tables ● Derived tables are subqueries in FROM clauses SELECT … FROM t1, (subquery) AS derived, t2 … ● Two execution methods – Materialized – Merged into the outer query
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- 5. 5Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. LATERAL Derived Tables ● Can refer to other tables in the same FROM clause SELECT … FROM t1, LATERAL (SELECT … FROM … WHERE … = t1.col) AS derived, t2 … – Only to tables that appear before it in the FROM clause – Including other derived tables ● Two execution methods – Materialized – Merged into the outer query ● SQL feature T491
- 6. 6Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. LATERAL Derived Tables ● Can refer to other tables in the same FROM clause SELECT … FROM t1, LATERAL (SELECT … FROM … WHERE … = t1.col) AS derived, t2 … – Only to tables that appear before it in the FROM clause – Including other derived tables ● Two execution methods – Materialized – Merged into the outer query ● SQL feature T491 ✓
- 7. 7Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Implicitly LATERAL Table Functions ● Table functions are implicitly LATERAL – Not allowed to explicitly specify LATERAL ● MySQL has one table function: JSON_TABLE SELECT people.* FROM t1, JSON_TABLE(t1.json_col, '$.people[*]' COLUMNS ( name VARCHAR(40) PATH '$.name', address VARCHAR(100) PATH '$.address')) AS people;
- 8. 8Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. LATERAL Without Lateral References ● Declared as LATERAL, but contains no lateral references SELECT … FROM t1, LATERAL (SELECT 1) AS derived, t2 … – Optimized by MySQL as if LATERAL was not present – No performance penalty ● Don't add LATERAL to all your derived tables! – Won't get any warning when accidentaly using a lateral reference – Confusing the next person to read your query
- 9. 9Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Examples, please!
- 10. 10Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Example Setup CREATE TABLE cities ( city_name VARCHAR(40), population BIGINT, country_name VARCHAR(40) ); INSERT INTO cities VALUES ('Shanghai', 24183300, 'China'), ('Beijing', 20794000, 'China'), … ;
- 11. 11Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. The Largest City of Each Country, Option 1 SELECT dt.population, dt.city_name, c.country_name FROM (SELECT DISTINCT country_name FROM cities) AS c, LATERAL ( SELECT city_name, population FROM cities WHERE cities.country_name = c.country_name ORDER BY population DESC LIMIT 1 ) AS dt;
- 12. 12Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. The Largest City of Each Country, Option 2 SELECT dt.pop, dt2.city_name, dt.country_name FROM ( SELECT country_name, MAX(population) AS pop FROM cities GROUP BY country_name ) AS dt, LATERAL ( SELECT city_name FROM cities WHERE cities.country_name = dt.country_name AND cities.population = dt.pop ) AS dt2;
- 13. 13Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. The Largest City of Each Country, No LATERAL! SELECT dt.pop, cities.city_name, dt.country_name FROM ( SELECT country_name, MAX(population) AS pop FROM cities GROUP BY country_name ) AS dt JOIN cities ON cities.country_name = dt.country_name AND cities.population = dt.pop;
- 14. 14Copyright © 2019 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. The Largest City of Each Country, No LATERAL! SELECT dt.pop, cities.city_name, dt.country_name FROM ( SELECT country_name, MAX(population) AS pop FROM cities GROUP BY country_name ) AS dt JOIN cities ON cities.country_name = dt.country_name AND cities.population = dt.pop; This is how MySQL rewrites the previous query after merging the lateral derived table into the outer query.
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