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…c frame selection Optional matches with more complex selections requiring multiple frames would break since the join logic was simplistically getting the prior frame, not the last pre-optional-merge-selection result.
This was due to earlier populated null results failing the join operator since Null=Null evaluates to false.
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Not sure if there's a standard way to automated or functional test the resulting behavior here... I did test it on an opengraph extension I built myself with some basic optional match queries to ensure my changes led to expected results. |
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- Line 48: Update the leading OPTIONAL MATCH handling around the `joinFrame`
check so it starts from a one-row seed or equivalent null-preserving plan,
producing one row with `g = null` when no `NodeKind1` matches. Update the
corresponding expected SQL golden case to reflect the generated plan.
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| if _, hasValidPrevious := s.previousValidFrame(s.scope.CurrentFrame()); hasValidPrevious { | ||
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
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site:neo4j.com/docs/cypher-manual/current/clauses/optional-match/ OPTIONAL MATCH no matching rows null result initial clause
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**If `OPTIONAL MATCH` is the first clause**, it starts from an empty input row and attempts the pattern. If nothing matches, it returns one row with `null` for the pattern variables—not zero rows. The manual’s example of an `OPTIONAL MATCH` preserving a row uses a preceding `MATCH`, but describes the same null behavior. ([neo4j.com](https://neo4j.com/docs/cypher-manual/current/clauses/optional-match/?utm_source=openai))
By contrast, a clause that returns no rows ends the query pipeline, so later clauses have no input. ([neo4j.com](https://neo4j.com/docs/cypher-manual/current/clauses/optional-match/?utm_source=openai))
Citations:
- 1: https://neo4j.com/docs/cypher-manual/current/clauses/optional-match/?utm_source=openai
- 2: https://neo4j.com/docs/cypher-manual/current/clauses/optional-match/?utm_source=openai
Preserve the null row for a leading OPTIONAL MATCH.
The new golden case at cypher/models/pgsql/test/translation_cases/multipart.sql:122-123 expects a plain scan. If no NodeKind1 matches, the scan and downstream CTEs return no rows, but Cypher requires one row with g = null.
This behavior predates the change: the merge-base previousValidFrame check also skipped optional lowering for a leading pattern. Lower the initial optional pattern from a one-row seed, or use an equivalent null-preserving plan, and update the expected SQL.
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Review comment at @cypher/models/pgsql/translate/match.go at line 48:
Update the leading OPTIONAL MATCH handling around the `joinFrame` check so it
starts from a one-row seed or equivalent null-preserving plan, producing one row
with `g = null` when no `NodeKind1` matches. Update the corresponding expected
SQL golden case to reflect the generated plan.
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@AlyaEru Thanks for filing BED-9974 for the leading OPTIONAL MATCH fix.
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Translation test updates are good test oracles but only if the semantic behavior is proven. I'd recommend adding an additional fixture to You could probably get an agent to crack out the fixture and its related assertion table pretty quick. It would keep this from regressing if the translation or the DB changes behavior underneath these assertions. |
Ran this against main and confirmed both tests failed in the expected ways on main.
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Description
I identified two bugs which (most likely) caused the reported problem.
(1): chained patterns e.g. (a)-[b]->(c)-[d]->(e) were not working correctly because the pg translation process adds multiple frames for this pattern, but then when picking the frame to "left join" against (the prior results frame, that we want to be sure to keep regardless of the optional match result), it assumed only one frame had been added - so it compared against the result of the first part of the match pattern rather than the pre-optional-match return value. I fixed this by saving the prior frame before beginning an optional match to ensure we left join against that.
(2): multiple consecutive optional matches were not working correctly because the first match would populate any exported variables with "null" if a match wasn't found for those variables (say, (a)-->(b), no b found for a given a' so b'=null, a and b exported). Then, when the second optional match ran and left joined its result with the result of the first optional match, if the second optional match found partial results corresponding with an item the first match had not found results for (say, (c)-->(a), a c found for that a', this frame exports a, b, and c), the join comparitor would fail because the exported variable from the first match with value null does not equal the second matches still null value for that variable. e.g., the comparator checks a'=a' which evaluates true, but it also checks b'=b', and postgres evaluates null=null to false, and so the join drops c'. I fixed this by switching from = to a different postgres operator which evaluates null=null to true, since this is the behavior we want for optional merge.
Resolves: BED-9780
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