Class RexRangeRef


  • public class RexRangeRef
    extends RexNode
    Reference to a range of columns.

    This construct is used only during the process of translating a SQL tree to a rel/rex tree. Regular rex trees do not contain this construct.

    While translating a join of EMP(EMPNO, ENAME, DEPTNO) to DEPT(DEPTNO2, DNAME) we create RexRangeRef(DeptType,3) to represent the pair of columns (DEPTNO2, DNAME) which came from DEPT. The type has 2 columns, and therefore the range represents columns {3, 4} of the input.

    Suppose we later create a reference to the DNAME field of this RexRangeRef; it will return a RexInputRef(5,Integer), and the RexRangeRef will disappear.