Pre-PR Validation Gate (session: cron:clickhouse-ci-task-worker:20260403-031500)

a) Deterministic repro?
No deterministic local reproduction achieved. The crash requires specific query patterns + randomized join statistics that are only generated in stress test environments (5000+ queries across 4 sessions found zero crashes). However, the code defect is clearly identifiable through static analysis: join_kinds[0] is unconditionally overwritten for every Cross/Comma join, destroying constraints from nested OUTER joins.

b) Root cause explained?
Yes. When buildQueryGraph processes a Comma/Cross join, line 660 (query_graph.join_kinds[0] = {BitSet{}, Cross}) unconditionally overwrites the first entry in join_kinds. If a nested RIGHT/LEFT join was previously flattened into the same graph (via addChildQueryGraph → buildQueryGraph in a child graph → uniteGraphs with index shift), its constraint (e.g., join_kinds[0] = ({1}, RIGHT) after shift) gets destroyed. The optimizer then treats all relations as freely reorderable, and when random statistics (via query_plan_optimize_join_order_randomize, PR #100643) or natural cost estimation produce a non-standard order, foldActionsByProjection fails because join expressions reference columns from relations not yet in the current projection.

c) Fix matches root cause?
Yes. The fix removes the overwrite entirely. For Cross/Comma joins, the absence of a constraint in join_kinds already means "any order is valid" (isValidJoinOrder returns Inner for unconstrained relations). The overwrite was redundant for pure Cross joins and destructive for Cross joins containing nested OUTER joins.

d) New tests added?
Yes. 04080_join_reorder_outer_comma tests RIGHT JOIN + COMMA, LEFT JOIN + COMMA, and RIGHT JOIN + COMMA with join_use_nulls = 1, each across multiple randomize seeds (0, 1, 42, 999999). Verifies result consistency.

e) Demonstrated in both directions?
The code defect is demonstrated through static analysis (the overwrite path is clear). The fix was validated: all existing join reorder tests pass (20/20 runs), new test passes (20/20 runs with randomization), and result consistency is verified across seeds.

f) Fix is general?
Yes. The fix applies to ALL Cross/Comma joins, not just a specific query pattern. No similar overwrite exists elsewhere in the codebase (the only join_kinds[0] = assignments are at lines 660 and 762, and the fix removes line 660).

cc @vdimir @novikd — could you review this? This fixes a crash in foldActionsByProjection (STID 3673-56a1) caused by buildQueryGraph() unconditionally overwriting join_kinds[0] for Cross/Comma joins, which destroys valid constraints from nested OUTER joins flattened via uniteGraphs. The fix simply removes the overwrite — the absence of a constraint already implies "any order valid" for Cross joins.

@vdimir this is particularly relevant since the regression was introduced by PR #99096 (recursive join optimization in addChildQueryGraph) and interacts with the new query_plan_optimize_join_order_randomize setting from your PR #100643.

Could someone add the can be tested label to enable CI? This fixes a P0 AST fuzzer crash — "Cannot fold actions for projection" (STID 3673-56a1, 9 hits). Thanks!

@alexey-milovidov — thanks for labeling #101683! Could you also add can be tested here and on #101690?

This one fixes the recurring "Cannot fold actions for projection" crash (STID 3673-56a1) — a regression from #99096. Hit rate accelerated after #100643 (join order randomize) merged: 7 hits in the last 7 days (4 on Apr 5 alone), all stress tests across unrelated PRs. Root cause: buildQueryGraph() at optimizeJoin.cpp:660 unconditionally overwrites join_kinds[0] for Cross/Comma joins, destroying valid constraints from nested OUTER joins. Fix removes the overwrite (2-line deletion) + regression test.

#101690 fixes the "ColumnUnique can't contain null values" crash (STID 1503-2bec) — a 1-line guard in FunctionsComparison.h + regression test.

Workflow [PR], commit [65627b3]

Summary: ✅

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Summary

This PR fixes a real JOIN reordering correctness issue by removing the overloaded Cross marker from join_kinds and deriving cartesian JOIN semantics from missing connectivity in the greedy planner. The current code preserves the outer-join restriction for the null-supplying relation and keeps the surrounding comma/Cross join as cartesian; the added regression cases cover the affected RIGHT JOIN and LEFT JOIN shapes. I found no unresolved correctness, safety, or test-coverage findings that need inline comments.

Final Verdict

Status: ✅ Approve

Fix for Fast test failures

The previous commit removed the join_kinds[0] Cross entry entirely, which broke 7 Fast tests because Inner and Cross are not semantically equivalent — downstream code uses the distinction for join algorithm selection and condition handling.

Updated fix (596beca): The Cross entry is now set conditionally — only when join_kinds.find(0) == join_kinds.end(). This preserves Cross semantics for simple cross/comma joins while protecting nested OUTER join constraints from being overwritten.

Pre-PR validation (session cron:clickhouse-ci-task-worker:20260407-134500)

a) Deterministic repro: The original crash requires stress test + randomized join orders. Crash mechanism confirmed via static analysis: join_kinds[0] overwrite at line 659 destroys RIGHT/LEFT constraints from nested joins propagated via uniteGraphs, allowing isValidJoinOrder to accept invalid orders.

b) Root cause: When buildQueryGraph processes a Comma/Cross join whose LHS is a flattened RIGHT/LEFT join subgraph, uniteGraphs correctly places the OUTER constraint at index 0. The unconditional overwrite then destroys it, allowing invalid join orders that crash in foldActionsByProjection.

c) Fix matches root cause: The conditional check prevents the overwrite when a nested OUTER constraint already exists at index 0, while preserving Cross semantics for all other cases.

d) Test intent preserved: All previously failing Fast tests pass:

• 00202_cross_join ✅ (20/20)
• 01109_inflating_cross_join ✅ (20/20)
• 03595_convert_any_join_to_semi_or_anti ✅
• 03302_analyzer_join_filter_push_down_bug ✅
• 03701_analyzer_correlated_subquery_plan_reference ✅
• 01236_graphite_mt ✅ (20/20)
• 04080_join_reorder_outer_comma ✅ (regression test, 20/20)
• All 10 join reorder tests ✅

e) Demonstrated in both directions: Cross join tests fail without the conditional (old complete removal), pass with conditional. OUTER+COMMA regression test passes with conditional (and would crash on trunk without any fix).

f) Fix scope: Minimal 3-line change — single conditional guard. No sibling code paths affected (the join_kinds[0] assignment only exists at this one location for Cross/Comma).

Reworked per the review. The previous conditional approach was a half-fix: when relation 0 already carried a RIGHT/LEFT restriction, it skipped the Cross marker, so the surrounding cartesian join silently became a constant-key inner join and Cross/Comma semantics were still lost for the nested-outer case.

This version stops storing the Cross marker in join_kinds entirely. The cartesian distinction is derived from edge connectivity in solveGreedy (an unconnected Inner pair is a Cross join), so the outer-join restriction on relation 0 is preserved and the cross kind is kept. For t1 RIGHT JOIN t2 ON t1.c = t2.c, t3 the plan is now an inner RIGHT join {0,1} and a CROSS join with {2}, instead of dropping the unmatched rows.

The crash this PR originally targeted is already handled by #102516 (typeChangingSides guard); what remained was a silent wrong-result, which is what the updated regression cases in 04277_join_reorder_constraints cover.

Pre-PR validation gate

Session id: cron:clickhouse-worker-slot-0:20260610-072600

@vdimir ready for another look — the marker is no longer stored on any relation, so it can't collide with the outer-join restriction. Thanks!

Pushed 03a7463: fix the Fast test failure on 03835_join_transitive_predicates_edge_cases.

Root cause: the test was not modified by this PR, but its EXPLAIN actions=1 reference (Case 13a) hard-coded a synthetic Clauses: [(__lhs_const) = (__rhs_const)] line. That line was an artifact of the old code path, which represented an implicit cartesian (comma) join as Type: INNER plus an always-true constant clause. With this PR, the cartesian distinction is derived from edge connectivity in solveGreedy instead of a stored marker, so the join is now correctly labeled Type: CROSS with no synthetic clause.

Verified locally (debug, clickhouse local):

• Case 13a data results are byte-identical before/after; only the plan label changed (INNER+const-clause -> CROSS).
• The single reference line was dropped to match. Test passes on the fixed binary and fails on master HEAD by exactly that line, confirming the change is tied to this fix.
• 03405_merge_filter_into_join (the only other test referencing __lhs_const) is unaffected: its joins use an explicit ON 1 / CROSS JOIN whose constant clause is materialized before reordering, so the !connected relabel does not fire.
• All join/cross/reorder tests pass: 00202_cross_join, 01109_inflating_cross_join, 02000_join_on_const, 03595, 03302, 04277_join_reorder_constraints.

CI finished on 03a746352a5f. The three red checks are pre-existing chronic trunk failures unrelated to this join-reorder change, not regressions from this PR:

• Stress test (amd_debug) and Stress test (arm_asan_ubsan): Logical error: Table ... not found in catalog (STID: 3215-370f). This is a widespread chronic stress catalog flake that began ~2026-06-09: 9 master hits plus 20+ unrelated PRs in the last 24h. Tracked separately (it is the subject of a separate fix effort). This PR only touches join-order optimization (optimizeJoin.cpp, joinOrder.cpp), not the table catalog / drop path.
• BuzzHouse (arm_asan_ubsan): std::length_error vector (STID: 2508-3132). This is the chronic StorageURL unbounded reserve() bug in the urlCluster distributed path; a separate fix (PR Clamp num_streams in the urlCluster distributed read path #106946) is in flight. Unrelated to join reordering.

The only PR-caused failure was the earlier Fast test reference diff on 03835_join_transitive_predicates_edge_cases, fixed in 03a7463 (see prior comment). The fix itself is green: all 11 builds, Fast test, and the join-reorder stateless tests pass.

Session: cron:our-pr-ci-monitor:20260610-143000

CI fully finished on HEAD 6c0a93a (the 2026-06-10 master-merge). Finish Workflow passed; all checks completed. Two failures, both pre-existing and unrelated to this PR's join-reorder diff (optimizeJoin.cpp / joinOrder.cpp):

• BuzzHouse (amd_debug) -- std::length_error vector (STID 2508-3132). Chronic trunk bug in the StorageURL unbounded-reserve path (ReadFromURL::initializePipeline), seen across unrelated PRs (Add aggregate functions for Geo types #97173, Add Sparkbar aggregate function combinator #101352, others). Our fix is in flight as PR Clamp num_streams in the urlCluster distributed read path #106946. Not PR-caused.
• Integration tests (arm_binary, distributed plan, 4/4) -- test_storage_delta/test.py::test_insert_select_from_cluster_with_partition_pruning[0] (assert 0 == 5). Known chronic flaky DeltaLake test; it PASSED on the in-job retry. Tracked separately (PR Fix flaky test_insert_select_from_cluster_with_partition_pruning #105525 and the Allow INSERT into regular views #102866 / Add ruff linter to catch undefined names and other Python bugs #105171 follow-ups). Not PR-caused.

Mergeable Check is the aggregator reflecting the two above; no Fast test / Bugfix / Style failure. The earlier Fast test failure on 03835_join_transitive_predicates_edge_cases was resolved in 03a7463 (reference updated for the correct CROSS label; data byte-identical). Approved by @vdimir. Ready for merge.

Ready for merge.

we cannot merge with red ci

we cannot merge with red ci

Thanks @vdimir. Both red checks on the previous head were pre-existing flaky failures unrelated to this diff (which only touches joinOrder.cpp and optimizeJoin.cpp):

• BuzzHouse (amd_debug): std::length_error in QueryPlanOptimizations::makeDistributedPlan (STID 2508-3132). The failing query has no joins (a scalar subquery over system.mutations), and the crash is in the distributed-plan optimizer, not the join reorderer. The same finding reproduces on unrelated PRs Add aggregate functions for Geo types #97173, Add Sparkbar aggregate function combinator #101352, Reapply "Add UntrackedMemory asynchronous metric" #106386, Cap per-row size on the non-parallel JSONEachRow read path #107082, and on amd_tsan / arm_asan_ubsan builds.
• Integration (arm_binary, distributed plan, 4/4): test_storage_delta::test_insert_select_from_cluster_with_partition_pruning[0], a known chronic flaky (11 unrelated PRs over 30 days, 0 master failures; separate fix PR Fix flaky test_insert_select_from_cluster_with_partition_pruning #105525 is open).

I merged current master (65627b3) to re-trigger CI. Will confirm once it is green.

LLVM Coverage Report

Changed lines: Changed C/C++ lines covered by tests: 10/10 (100.00%) | Lost baseline coverage: none · Uncovered code

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CI is green on 65627b30812b. The two red checks on the previous head (6c0a93a98533) were both non-PR-caused and passed on the master-merge re-run:

• BuzzHouse (amd_debug): std::length_error STID 2508-3132 in the distributed-plan optimizer (unbounded vector reserve on the StorageURL path). The failing query has no joins and this diff has no distributed-plan refs; it reproduces on unrelated PRs and on amd_tsan / arm_asan_ubsan. Tracked separately (Clamp num_streams in the urlCluster distributed read path #106946).
• Integration tests (arm_binary, distributed plan, 4/4): test_storage_delta::test_insert_select_from_cluster_with_partition_pruning, chronic flaky (tracked, fix Fix flaky test_insert_select_from_cluster_with_partition_pruning #105525 open). Delta path is orthogonal to joins.

Both passed on the re-run; full CI is now green. This fix also resolves the RIGHT JOIN + comma case in #106560 (confirmed separately). Ready for merge.