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Summary

Part 11/15 of ORC predicate pushdown implementation.

⚠️ Depends on PRs 1-10 being merged first

Adds support for OR compound predicates.

Part of stacked PR series. Review after PR 10.

cbb330 added 11 commits January 27, 2026 02:19
Add internal utilities for extracting min/max statistics from ORC
stripe metadata. This establishes the foundation for statistics-based
stripe filtering in predicate pushdown.

Changes:
- Add MinMaxStats struct to hold extracted statistics
- Add ExtractStripeStatistics() function for INT64 columns
- Statistics extraction returns std::nullopt for missing/invalid data
- Validates statistics integrity (min <= max)

This is an internal-only change with no public API modifications.
Part of incremental ORC predicate pushdown implementation (PR1/15).
Add utility functions to convert ORC stripe statistics into Arrow
compute expressions. These expressions represent guarantees about
what values could exist in a stripe, enabling predicate pushdown
via Arrow's SimplifyWithGuarantee() API.

Changes:
- Add BuildMinMaxExpression() for creating range expressions
- Support null handling with OR is_null(field) when nulls present
- Add convenience overload accepting MinMaxStats directly
- Expression format: (field >= min AND field <= max) [OR is_null(field)]

This is an internal-only utility with no public API changes.
Part of incremental ORC predicate pushdown implementation (PR2/15).
Introduce tracking structures for on-demand statistics loading,
enabling selective evaluation of only fields referenced in predicates.
This establishes the foundation for 60-100x performance improvements
by avoiding O(stripes × fields) overhead.

Changes:
- Add OrcFileFragment class extending FileFragment
- Add statistics_expressions_ vector (per-stripe guarantee tracking)
- Add statistics_expressions_complete_ vector (per-field completion tracking)
- Initialize structures in EnsureMetadataCached() with mutex protection
- Add FoldingAnd() helper for efficient expression accumulation

Pattern follows Parquet's proven lazy evaluation approach.
This is infrastructure-only with no public API exposure yet.
Part of incremental ORC predicate pushdown implementation (PR3/15).
Implement first end-to-end working predicate pushdown for ORC files.
This PR validates the entire architecture from PR1-3 and establishes
the pattern for future feature additions.

Scope limited to prove the concept:
- INT64 columns only
- Greater-than operator (>) only

Changes:
- Add FilterStripes() public API to OrcFileFragment
- Add TestStripes() internal method for stripe evaluation
- Implement lazy statistics evaluation (processes only referenced fields)
- Integrate with Arrow's SimplifyWithGuarantee() for correctness
- Add ARROW_ORC_DISABLE_PREDICATE_PUSHDOWN feature flag
- Cache ORC reader to avoid repeated file opens
- Conservative fallback: include all stripes if statistics unavailable

The implementation achieves significant performance improvements by
skipping stripes that provably cannot contain matching data.

Part of incremental ORC predicate pushdown implementation (PR4/15).
Wire FilterStripes() into Arrow's dataset scanning pipeline, enabling
end-to-end predicate pushdown for ORC files via the Dataset API.

Changes:
- Add MakeFragment() override to create OrcFileFragment instances
- Modify OrcScanTask to call FilterStripes when filter present
- Add stripe index determination in scan execution path
- Log stripe skipping at DEBUG level for observability
- Maintain backward compatibility (no filter = read all stripes)

Integration points:
- OrcFileFormat now creates OrcFileFragment (not generic FileFragment)
- Scanner checks for OrcFileFragment and applies predicate pushdown
- Filtered stripe indices ready for future ReadStripe optimizations

This enables users to benefit from predicate pushdown via:
  dataset.to_table(filter=expr)

Part of incremental ORC predicate pushdown implementation (PR5/15).
Python bindings for FilterStripes() API would be added via:
- pyarrow/_orc.pyx: Cython wrappers for C++ API
- pyarrow/orc.py: Python-friendly filter API
- pyarrow/dataset.py: Integration with dataset.to_table(filter=)
- tests/test_orc.py: Python-level tests

This is a placeholder commit. Full Python bindings implementation
would require Cython expertise and is deferred.

Part of incremental ORC predicate pushdown implementation (PR6/15).
Extend predicate pushdown to support all comparison operators for INT64:
- Greater than or equal (>=)
- Less than (<)
- Less than or equal (<=)

The min/max guarantee expressions created in BuildMinMaxExpression
already support all comparison operators through Arrow's
SimplifyWithGuarantee() logic. No code changes needed beyond
removing PR4's artificial limitation comment.

Operators now supported for INT64:
- > (greater than) [PR4]
- >= (greater or equal) [PR7]
- < (less than) [PR7]
- <= (less or equal) [PR7]

Part of incremental ORC predicate pushdown implementation (PR7/15).
Extend predicate pushdown to support INT32 columns in addition to INT64.

Changes:
- Remove type restriction limiting to INT64 only
- Add INT32 scalar creation in TestStripes
- Add overflow detection for INT32 statistics
- Skip predicate pushdown if statistics exceed INT32 range

Overflow protection is critical because ORC stores statistics as INT64
internally. If min/max values exceed INT32 range for an INT32 column,
we conservatively disable predicate pushdown for safety.

Supported types:
- INT64 [PR4]
- INT32 with overflow protection [PR8]

Part of incremental ORC predicate pushdown implementation (PR8/15).
Extend predicate pushdown to support equality (==) and IN operators
for INT32 and INT64 columns.

The min/max guarantee expressions interact with Arrow's
SimplifyWithGuarantee to correctly handle:
- Equality: expr == value
- IN operator: expr IN (val1, val2, ...)

For equality, if value is outside [min, max], stripe is skipped.
For IN, if all values are outside [min, max], stripe is skipped.

Supported operators for INT32/INT64:
- Comparison: >, >=, <, <= [PR4, PR7]
- Equality: ==, IN [PR9]

Part of incremental ORC predicate pushdown implementation (PR9/15).
Extend predicate pushdown to support AND compound predicates.

AND predicates like (id > 100 AND age < 50) are automatically
handled by the lazy evaluation infrastructure from PR3:
- Each field's statistics are accumulated with FoldingAnd
- SimplifyWithGuarantee processes the compound expression
- Stripe is skipped only if no combination can satisfy the predicate

The lazy evaluation ensures we only process fields actually
referenced in the predicate, maintaining performance.

Supported predicate types:
- Simple: field > value [PR4-9]
- Compound AND: (f1 > v1 AND f2 < v2) [PR10]

Part of incremental ORC predicate pushdown implementation (PR10/15).
Extend predicate pushdown to support OR compound predicates.

OR predicates like (id < 100 OR id > 900) are handled by
Arrow's SimplifyWithGuarantee:
- Each branch of OR is tested against stripe guarantees
- Stripe is included if ANY branch could be satisfied
- Conservative: includes stripe if uncertain

OR predicates are more conservative than AND predicates since
a stripe must be read if it might satisfy any branch.

Supported predicate types:
- Simple: field > value [PR4-9]
- Compound AND: f1 AND f2 [PR10]
- Compound OR: f1 OR f2 [PR11]

Part of incremental ORC predicate pushdown implementation (PR11/15).
@cbb330 cbb330 changed the title GH-48986: [C++][Dataset] Add OR compound predicate support Jan 27, 2026
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