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Part of #81: planning the GPT of xarray-sql's ML demos (xarray-sql's benchmarks/ml/02_nanogpt.py, a GPT written and trained in SQL) took longer with einfold on.

Why. Some fold nodes keep the host's own plan, to run where the dense algorithm declines: masked folds, folds joined back to their domain, fold pipelines, and every fold under DetectFolds::with_host_fallback. EinFoldPlanner planned that fallback along with the operator. A fallback is the fold's whole subtree, so this planned the operator's inputs a second time, and within them every inner fold's fallback again. In a deep plan that grows with the square of the depth. The GPT's loss has 80 such folds, and with #86 none of them falls back, yet planning their fallbacks took 0.5 s of the loss's 1.45 s of physical planning.

What changed. EinFoldExec keeps its fallback as a logical plan, and plans it only when it runs. It plans it for the task that runs it: with that task's session configuration and runtime, and DataFusion's default physical optimizer rules. The rules are the one difference from before: a session's own physical optimizer rules don't reach a fallback now. einfold's Python extension already plans with the default rules, since the session's rules see only proxies through the FFI.

EinFoldExec::with_fallback now takes a LogicalPlan, and fallback() returns one. A fallback planned when it runs starts with fresh state, so the operator no longer resets it, and its reset_state is DataFusion's default again.

Measured on the GPT's loss at the demo's size, through datafusion-python, on an Intel i7-8700. Each wheel ran twice, alternating, while another job compiled, at a load average of 3–5:

#86 this pull request
einfold's physical planning, inside the extension 1.45 s 0.9 s
the loss's planning, seen from Python (einfold off: 2.5 s) 3.4–3.5 s 2.9 s
the loss's execution, after the first run (einfold off: 0.35–0.40 s) 0.47–0.53 s 0.57–0.58 s

The executions are within the noise of the machine. Most of the planning gap that's left is DataFusion's FFI: the session sends the logical plan, about 10,000 lines of it, to the extension as protobuf (#58).

Tests. The existing tests of fallbacks pass unchanged:

  • recursive queries whose fallback runs on every iteration;
  • plans that are reset and run again;
  • unique-domain checks that decline;
  • the property test of detection against the host, with fallbacks on.

The two tests that checked a fallback holds no EinFoldExec now check that its logical plan holds no fold node. The Python extension's tests pass too.

After CodeRabbit's review

  • A deferred fallback is planned with the planning session's ExecutionProps, so variables (@name) resolve there as they did in the query. fallbacks_plan_with_the_sessions_variables failed before.

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Fallbacks are stored as logical plans and attached without physical planning. When a fallback runs, EinFoldExec plans it using the task’s configuration and runtime environment, with saved execution properties when available. Tests cover session-variable fallback behavior and inspect fallback logical plans.

Changes: Fallback planning

Layer / File(s) Summary
Store and attach logical fallbacks
crates/einfold-datafusion/src/ein_fold_exec.rs, crates/einfold-datafusion/src/planner.rs
EinFoldExec stores and returns logical-plan fallbacks and preserves execution properties. EinFoldPlanner attaches pipeline and fold fallbacks without physically planning them.
Plan fallbacks at execution
crates/einfold-datafusion/src/ein_fold_exec.rs, crates/einfold-datafusion/tests/detect_vs_host.rs
Fallback execution creates a physical plan with the task’s configuration and runtime environment. A test checks session-variable behavior, and fallback assertions inspect logical plans for Fold nodes.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Refactor · Unblocks: 11 PRs

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sequenceDiagram
  participant EinFoldExec
  participant Task
  participant DefaultPhysicalPlanner
  participant EinFoldPlanner
  EinFoldExec->>Task: Read configuration and runtime environment
  EinFoldExec->>DefaultPhysicalPlanner: Plan fallback LogicalPlan
  DefaultPhysicalPlanner->>EinFoldPlanner: Plan extension nodes
  DefaultPhysicalPlanner-->>EinFoldExec: Return physical plan
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Possibly related issues

  • xqlsystems/einfold#66 — The change retains fallbacks as logical plans and plans them when they run.
  • xqlsystems/einfold#58 — The change plans fallbacks with the task’s configuration and runtime environment.
  • xqlsystems/einfold#81 — The change defers planning fallbacks until execution, matching the issue’s identified possible source of planning time.
Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 73ed1

Fallback queries using catalog-dependent table providers may fail or return different results. Preserve the planning session’s catalog list before merging unless that limitation is explicitly accepted.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 73ed1

Task configuration, runtime, and planning-session variable properties are preserved, and each fallback execution receives fresh physical state. No concrete security bypass was established. However, custom planning rules and other session state are not fully inherited, leaving compatibility and control-preservation questions for downstream integrations.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated exposure is the fallback subtree of an executing query, including its provider scans and nested folds. The inspected flow does not establish a cross-tenant attack path or privilege increase; effective exposure depends on the host’s providers and physical planning controls.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • inferred — Rebuilding planning state preserves selected task properties but does not establish equivalence with the original session’s registries or provider-facing identity. This matters at provider scans: Lean deliberately preserves the supplied session for filtered scans because those filters may require session functions. Whether a fallback scan loses required behavior or controls depends on the underlying provider and remains unverified.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Deferred planning and fallback collection run within the existing runtime cancellation wrapper. Planning errors propagate through the same fallible fallback path, and partition collection remains ordered; no new retry or rollback mechanism is introduced in this path.
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Review comments at @crates/einfold-datafusion/src/ein_fold_exec.rs:
- Around line 244-248: Update the deferred planning state built in plan_host to
carry the original session’s ExecutionProps, including its variable providers,
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let state = SessionStateBuilder::new()
.with_config(ctx.session_config().clone())
.with_runtime_env(ctx.runtime_env())
.with_default_features()
.build();

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rg -n -F -e 'datafusion' Cargo.toml Cargo.lock crates/*/Cargo.toml 2>/dev/null | sed -n '1,220p'
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<title>mod.rs - source</title>
<location>https://docs.rs/datafusion/latest/src/datafusion/execution/context/mod.rs.html</location>
<excerpt>citeturn0search1 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: today;     797    /// [expr_api]: https://github.com/apache/datafusion/blob/main/datafusion-examples/examples/query_planning/expr_api.rs ...     1115        if variable.starts_with(&quot;datafusion.runtime.&quot;) ...     1622        self.state.write().register_udtf(name, fun)
    289///    [`PhysicalExpr`]s without requiring a full [`SessionState`].
    290///
    291/// [`PhysicalExpr`]: crate::physical_expr::PhysicalExpr
    292#[derive(Clone)]
    293pub struct SessionContext {
    294    /// UUID for the session
    295    session_id: String,
    296    /// Session start time
    297    session_start_time: DateTime&lt;Utc&gt;,
    298    /// Shared session state for the session
    299    state: Arc&lt;RwLock&lt;SessionState&gt;&gt;,
    300}
    301
    302impl Default for SessionContext {
    303    fn default() -&gt; Self {
    304        Self::new()
    305    }
    306}
    307
    308impl SessionContext {
    309    /// Creates a new `SessionContext` using the default [`SessionConfig`].
    310    pub fn new() -&gt; Self {
    311        Self::new_with_config(SessionConfig::new())
    312    }
    313
    314    /// Finds any [`ListingSchemaProvider`]s and instructs them to reload tables from &quot;disk&quot;
    315    pub async fn refresh_catalogs(&amp;self) -&gt; Result&lt;()&gt; {
    316        let cat_names = self.catalog_names().clone();
    317        for cat_name in cat_names.iter() {
    318            let cat = self
    319                .catalog(cat_name.as_str())
    320                .ok_or_else(|| internal_datafusion_err!(&quot;Catalog not found!&quot;))?;
    321            for schema_name in cat.schema_names() {
    792    /// ```
    793    /// # See Also
    794    /// * [`SessionState::create_physical_expr`] for a lower level API
    795    ///
    796    /// [simplified]: datafusion_optimizer::simplify_expressions
    797    /// [expr_api]: https://github.com/apache/datafusion/blob/main/datafusion-examples/examples/query_planning/expr_api.rs
    798    pub fn create_physical_expr(
    799        &amp;self,
    800        expr: Expr,
    801        df_schema: &amp;DFSchema,
    802    ) -&gt; Result&lt;Arc&lt;dyn PhysicalExpr&gt;&gt; {
    803        self.state.read().create_physical_expr(expr, df_schema)
    804    }
    806    // return an empty dataframe
    807    fn return_empty_dataframe(&amp;self) -&gt; Result&lt;DataFrame&gt; {
    808        let plan = LogicalPlanBuilder::empty(false).build()?;
    809        Ok(DataFrame::new(self.state(), plan))
    810    }
    811
    812    async fn create_external_table(
    813        &amp;self,
    814        cmd: &amp;CreateExternalTable,
    815    ) -&gt; Result&lt;DataFrame&gt; {
    816        let exist = self.table_exist(cmd.name.clone())?;
    817
    818        if cmd.temporary {
    819            return not_impl_err!(&quot;Temporary tables not supported&quot;);
    820        }
    821
    822        match (cmd.if_not_exists, cmd.or_replace, exist) {
    1608    /// Registers a variable provider within this context.
    1609    pub fn register_variable(
    1610        &amp;self,
    1611        variable_type: VarType,
    1612        provider: Arc&lt;dyn VarProvider + Send + Sync&gt;,
    1613    ) {
    1614        self.state
    1615            .write()
    1616            .execution_props_mut()
    1617            .add_var_provider(variable_type, provider);
    1618    }
    1619
    1620    /// Register a table UDF with this context
    1621    pub fn register_udtf(&amp;self, name: &amp;str, fun: Arc&lt;dyn TableFunctionImpl&gt;) {
    1622        self.state.write().register_udtf(name, fun)
    1623    }
    1624
    1625    /// Registers a scalar UDF within this context.
    1626    ///
    1627    /// Note in SQL queries, function names are looked up using
    1628    /// lowercase unless the query uses quotes. For example,
    1629    ///
    1630    /// - `SELECT MY_FUNC(x)...` will look for a function named `&quot;my_func&quot;`
    1631    /// - `SELECT &quot;my_FUNC&quot;(x)` will look for a function named `&quot;my_FUNC&quot;`
    1632    ///
    1633    /// Any functions registered with the udf name or its aliases will be overwritten with this new function
    1634    pub fn register_udf(&amp;self, f: ScalarUDF) {
    1635        let mut state = self.state.write();
    1636        state.register_udf(Arc::new(f)).ok();
    1637    }
    1638
    1639    /// Registers a higher-order function within this context.
    2426        let tmp_dir = TempDir::new()?;
    2427        let partition_count = 4;
    2428        let ctx = create_ctx(&amp;tmp_dir, partition_count).await?;
    2429
    2430        let variable_provider = test::variable::SystemVar::new();
    2431        ctx.register_variable(VarType::System, Arc::new(variable_provider));
    2432        let variable_provider = test::variable::UserDefinedVar::new();
    2433        ctx.register_variable(VarType::UserDefined, Arc::new(variable_provider));
    2434
    2435        let provider = test::create_table_dual();
    2436        ctx.register_table(&quot;dual&quot;, provider)?;
    2437
    2438        let results =
    2439            plan_and_collect(&amp;ctx, &quot;SELECT @@version, @name, @integer + 1 FROM dual&quot;)
    2440                .await?;
    2441
    2442        assert_snapshot!(batches_to_string(&amp;results), @r&quot;
    2443        +----------------------+------------------------+---------------------+
    2444        | @@version            | @name                  | @integer + Int64(1) |
    2445        +----------------------+------------------------+---------------------+
    2446        | system-var-@@version | user-defined-var-@name | 42                  |
    2447        +----------------------+------------------------+---------------------+
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<excerpt>citeturn0search3 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: 3 weeks ago;  | Ok(create_physical_expr(expr, input_dfschema, execution_props)?) ...  | match execution_props.get_var_provider(VarType::System) { ...  | let scalar_value = provider.get_value(variable_names.clone())?
 | /// // In this case, a BooleanArray with the result of the comparison
 | /// let ColumnarValue::Array(arr) = result else {
 | /// panic!(&quot;Expected an array&quot;)
 | /// };
 | /// assert_eq!(arr.as_boolean(), &amp;BooleanArray::from(vec![true, false, false]));
 | /// ```
 | ///
 | /// [ColumnarValue]: datafusion_expr::ColumnarValue
 | ///
 | /// Create a physical expression from a logical expression ([Expr]).
 | ///
 | /// # Arguments
 | ///
 | /// * `e` - The logical expression
 | /// * `input_dfschema` - The DataFusion schema for the input, used to resolve `Column` references
 | /// to qualified or unqualified fields by name.
 | pub fn create_physical_expr(
 | e: &amp;Expr,
 | input_dfschema: &amp;DFSchema,
 | execution_props: &amp;ExecutionProps,
 | ) -&gt; Result&lt;Arc&lt;dyn PhysicalExpr&gt;&gt; {
 | let input_schema: &amp;Schema = &amp;input_dfschema.into();
 | 
 | match e {
 | Expr::Alias(Alias { expr, metadata, .. }) =&gt; {
 | if let Expr::Literal(v, prior_metadata) = expr.as_ref() {
 | let new_metadata = FieldMetadata::merge_options(
 | prior_metadata.as_ref(),
 | metadata.as_ref(),
 | );
 | Ok(Arc::new(Literal::new_with_metadata(
 | v.clone(),
 | new_metadata,
 | )))
 | } else {
 | Ok(create_physical_expr(expr, input_dfschema, execution_props)?)
 | }
 | }
 | Expr::Column(c) =&gt; {
 | let idx = input_dfschema.index_of_column(c)?;
 | Ok(Arc::new(Column::new(&amp;c.name, idx)))
 | }
 | Expr::Literal(value, metadata) =&gt; Ok(Arc::new(Literal::new_with_metadata(
 | value.clone(),
 | metadata.clone(),
 | ))),
 | Expr::ScalarVariable(_, variable_names) =&gt; {
 | if is_system_variables(variable_names) {
 | match execution_props.get_var_provider(VarType::System) {
 | Some(provider) =&gt; {
 | let scalar_value = provider.get_value(variable_names.clone())?;
 | Ok(Arc::new(Literal::new(scalar_value)))
 | }
 | _ =&gt; plan_err!(&quot;No system variable provider found&quot;),
 | }
 | } else {
 | match execution_props.get_var_provider(VarType::UserDefined) {
 | Some(provider) =&gt; {
 | let scalar_value = provider.get_value(variable_names.clone())?;
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<excerpt>citeturn1search0 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: 4 weeks ago; ## datafusion 55.1.0 ...     ) -&gt; Result&lt;Arc&lt;dyn PhysicalExpr&gt;, DataFusionError&gt;` ... Create a physical expression from a logical expression (Expr).

## create_physical_expr

## datafusion55.1.0

### Sections

  * Example: Create `PhysicalExpr` from `Expr`
  * Example: Executing a PhysicalExpr to obtain ColumnarValue
  * Arguments

## In datafusion::physical_expr

# Function create_physical_expr [Button: Copy item path]
    
    `pub fn create_physical_expr(
        e: &amp;Expr,
        input_dfschema: &amp;DFSchema,
        execution_props: &amp;ExecutionProps,
        planning_ctx: &amp;PhysicalPlanningContext,
    ) -&gt; Result&lt;Arc&lt;dyn PhysicalExpr&gt;, DataFusionError&gt;`

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PhysicalExpr evaluate DataFusion expressions such as `A + 1`, or `CAST(c1 AS int)`.

PhysicalExpr are the physical counterpart to Expr used in logical planning, and can be evaluated directly on a RecordBatch. They are normally created from Expr by a PhysicalPlanner and can be created directly using create_physical_expr.

A Physical expression knows its type, nullability and how to evaluate itself.

## §Example: Create `PhysicalExpr` from `Expr`
    
    `// For a logical expression `a = 1`, we can create a physical expression
    let expr = col(&quot;a&quot;).eq(lit(1));
    // To create a PhysicalExpr we need 1. a schema
    let schema = Schema::new(vec![Field::new(&quot;a&quot;, DataType::Int32, true)]);
    let df_schema = DFSchema::try_from(schema).unwrap();
    // 2. ExecutionProps
    let props = ExecutionProps::new();
    // We can now create a PhysicalExpr. Expressions with no scalar
    // subqueries use an empty `PhysicalPlanningContext`:
    let physical_expr =
        create_physical_expr(&amp;expr, &amp;df_schema, &amp;props, &amp;PhysicalPlanningContext::default())
            .unwrap();`

## §Example: Executing a PhysicalExpr to obtain ColumnarValue
    
    `// Given a PhysicalExpr, for `a = 1` we can evaluate it against a RecordBatch like this:
    let physical_expr =
        create_physical_expr(&amp;expr, &amp;df_schema, &amp;props, &amp;PhysicalPlanningContext::default())
            .unwrap();
    // Input of [1,2,3]
    let input_batch = RecordBatch::try_from_iter(vec![
      (&quot;a&quot;, Arc::new(Int32Array::from(vec![1, 2, 3])) as _)
    ]).unwrap();
    // The result is a ColumnarValue (either an Array or a Scalar)
    let result = physical_expr.evaluate(&amp;input_batch).unwrap();
    // In this case, a BooleanArray with the result of the comparison
    let ColumnarValue::Array(arr) = result else {
     panic!(&quot;Expected an array&quot;)
    };
    assert_eq!(arr.as_boolean(), &amp;BooleanArray::from(vec![true, false, false]));`

Create a physical expression from a logical expression (Expr).

## §Arguments

  * `e` - The logical expression
  * `input_dfschema` - The DataFusion schema for the input, used to resolve `Column` references to qualified or unqualified fields by name.
  * `execution_props` - Per-execution properties such as the query start time.
  * `planning_ctx` - The `PhysicalPlanningContext` used to resolve `Expr::ScalarSubquery` and `Expr::LambdaVariable` nodes. The physical planner threads the subquery index map and shared results container from its `ScalarSubqueryExec` construction into calls to `create_physical_expr`; the lambda variable qualifiers are added by this function itself as it descends into lambda bodies. Callers creating physical expressions outside of physical planning should pass `&amp;PhysicalPlanningContext::default()`; converting a scalar subquery then returns a planning error.</excerpt>
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<excerpt>citeturn1search1 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: today;     1942    /// already exists&quot; error. ...     2184/// A planner used to add extensions to DataFusion logical and physical plans. ...     2837        fn create_physical_expr( ...     2865    /// Generate a partitioned CSV file and register it with an execution context
    289///    [`PhysicalExpr`]s without requiring a full [`SessionState`].
    290///
    291/// [`PhysicalExpr`]: crate::physical_expr::PhysicalExpr
    292#[derive(Clone)]
    293pub struct SessionContext {
    294    /// UUID for the session
    295    session_id: String,
    296    /// Session start time
    297    session_start_time: DateTime&lt;Utc&gt;,
    298    /// Shared session state for the session
    299    state: Arc&lt;RwLock&lt;SessionState&gt;&gt;,
    300}
    301
    302impl Default for SessionContext {
    303    fn default() -&gt; Self {
    304        Self::new()
    305    }
    306}
    307
    308impl SessionContext {
    309    /// Creates a new `SessionContext` using the default [`SessionConfig`].
    310    pub fn new() -&gt; Self {
    311        Self::new_with_config(SessionConfig::new())
    312    }
    313
    314    /// Finds any [`ListingSchemaProvider`]s and instructs them to reload tables from &quot;disk&quot;
    315    pub async fn refresh_catalogs(&amp;self) -&gt; Result&lt;()&gt; {
    316        let cat_names = self.catalog_names().clone();
    317        for cat_name in cat_names.iter() {
    318            let cat = self
    319                .catalog(cat_name.as_str())
    320                .ok_or_else(|| internal_datafusion_err!(&quot;Catalog not found!&quot;))?;
    321            for schema_name in cat.schema_names() {
    1608    /// Registers a variable provider within this context.
    1609    pub fn register_variable(
    1610        &amp;self,
    1611        variable_type: VarType,
    1612        provider: Arc&lt;dyn VarProvider + Send + Sync&gt;,
    1613    ) {
    1614        self.state
    1615            .write()
    1616            .execution_props_mut()
    1617            .add_var_provider(variable_type, provider);
    1618    }
    1619
    1620    /// Register a table UDF with this context
    1621    pub fn register_udtf(&amp;self, name: &amp;str, fun: Arc&lt;dyn TableFunctionImpl&gt;) {
    1622        self.state.write().register_udtf(name, fun)
    1623    }
    1624
    1625    /// Registers a scalar UDF within this context.
    1626    ///
    1627    /// Note in SQL queries, function names are looked up using
    1628    /// lowercase unless the query uses quotes. For example,
    1629    ///
    1630    /// - `SELECT MY_FUNC(x)...` will look for a function named `&quot;my_func&quot;`
    1631    /// - `SELECT &quot;my_FUNC&quot;(x)` will look for a function named `&quot;my_FUNC&quot;`
    1632    ///
    1633    /// Any functions registered with the udf name or its aliases will be overwritten with this new function
    1634    pub fn register_udf(&amp;self, f: ScalarUDF) {
    1635        let mut state = self.state.write();
    1636        state.register_udf(Arc::new(f)).ok();
    1637    }
    1638
    1639    /// Registers a higher-order function within this context.
    2426        let tmp_dir = TempDir::new()?;
    2427        let partition_count = 4;
    2428        let ctx = create_ctx(&amp;tmp_dir, partition_count).await?;
    2429
    2430        let variable_provider = test::variable::SystemVar::new();
    2431        ctx.register_variable(VarType::System, Arc::new(variable_provider));
    2432        let variable_provider = test::variable::UserDefinedVar::new();
    2433        ctx.register_variable(VarType::UserDefined, Arc::new(variable_provider));
    2434
    2435        let provider = test::create_table_dual();
    2436        ctx.register_table(&quot;dual&quot;, provider)?;
    2437
    2438        let results =
    2439            plan_and_collect(&amp;ctx, &quot;SELECT @@version, @name, @integer + 1 FROM dual&quot;)
    2440                .await?;
    2441
    2442        assert_snapshot!(batches_to_string(&amp;results), @r&quot;
    2443        +----------------------+------------------------+---------------------+
    2444        | @@version            | @name                  | @integer + Int64(1) |
    2445        +----------------------+------------------------+---------------------+
    2446        | system-var-@@version | user-defined-var-@name | 42                  |
    2447        +----------------------+------------------------+---------------------+
    2831            _logical_plan: &amp;LogicalPlan,
    2832            _session_state: &amp;dyn Session,
    2833        ) -&gt; Result&lt;Arc&lt;dyn ExecutionPlan&gt;&gt; {
    2834            not_impl_err!(&quot;query not supported&quot;)
    2835        }
    2836
    2837        fn create_physical_expr(
    2838            &amp;self,
    2839            _expr: &amp;Expr,
    2840            _input_dfschema: &amp;DFSchema,
    2841            _session_state: &amp;dyn Session,
    2842            _planning_ctx: &amp;PhysicalPlanningContext,
    2843        ) -&gt; Result&lt;Arc&lt;dyn PhysicalExpr&gt;&gt; {
    2844            unimplemented!()
    2845        }
    2846    }
    2847
    2848    #[derive(Debug)]
    2849    struct MyQueryPlanner {}
    2850
    2851    #[async_trait]
    2852    impl QueryPlanner for MyQueryPlanner {
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## ExecutionProps

## datafusion55.2.0

## In datafusion::execution::context

# Struct ExecutionProps [Button: Copy item path]

Source
    
    `pub struct ExecutionProps {
        pub query_execution_start_time: Option&lt;DateTime&lt;Utc&gt;&gt;,
        pub alias_generator: Arc&lt;AliasGenerator&gt;,
        pub config_options: Option&lt;Arc&lt;ConfigOptions&gt;&gt;,
        pub var_providers: Option&lt;HashMap&lt;VarType, Arc&lt;dyn VarProvider + Sync + Send&gt;&gt;&gt;,
    }`

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Holds properties and scratch state used while optimizing a `LogicalPlan` and translating it into an executable physical plan, such as the statement start time used during simplification.

An `ExecutionProps` is created each time a `LogicalPlan` is prepared for execution (optimized). If the same plan is optimized multiple times, a new `ExecutionProps` is created each time.

It is important that this structure be cheap to create as it is done so during predicate pruning and expression simplification

## §Relationship with `TaskContext`

`ExecutionProps` is intentionally distinct from `TaskContext`. It is used while optimizing a logical plan and constructing physical expressions and physical plans, before physical operators are run.

`TaskContext` is the runtime context passed to physical operators during physical-plan execution.

Keeping these structures separate avoids threading execution/runtime state through planning APIs, and avoids making execution depend on planner-only scratch state.

## Fields§

§`query_execution_start_time: Option&lt;DateTime&lt;Utc&gt;&gt;`

The time at which the query execution started. If `None`, functions like `now()` will not be simplified during optimization.

§`alias_generator: Arc&lt;AliasGenerator&gt;`

Alias generator used by subquery optimizer rules

§`config_options: Option&lt;Arc&lt;ConfigOptions&gt;&gt;`

Snapshot of config options when the query started

§`var_providers: Option&lt;HashMap&lt;VarType, Arc&lt;dyn VarProvider + Sync + Send&gt;&gt;&gt;`

Providers for scalar variables

## Implementations§

Source§

### impl ExecutionProps

Source

#### pub fn new() -&gt; ExecutionProps

Creates a new execution props

Source

#### pub fn with_query_execution_start_time( self, query_execution_start_time: DateTime&lt;Utc&gt;, ) -&gt; ExecutionProps

Set the query execution start time to use

Source

#### pub fn start_execution(&amp;mut self) -&gt; &amp;ExecutionProps

👎Deprecated since 50.0.0:

Use mark_start_execution instead

Source

#### pub fn mark_start_execution( &amp;mut self, config_options: Arc&lt;ConfigOptions&gt;, ) -&gt; &amp;ExecutionProps

Marks the execution of query started timestamp. This also instantiates a new alias generator.

Source

#### pub fn add_var_provider( &amp;mut self, var_type: VarType, provider: Arc&lt;dyn VarProvider + Sync + Send&gt;, ) -&gt; Option&lt;Arc&lt;dyn VarProvider + Sync + Send&gt;&gt;

Registers a variable provider, returning the existing provider, if any

Source

#### pub fn get_var_provider( &amp;self, var_type: VarType, ) -&gt; Option&lt;Arc&lt;dyn VarProvider + Sync + Send&gt;&gt;

Returns the provider for the `var_type`, if any

Source

#### pub fn config_options(&amp;self) -&gt; Option&lt;&amp;Arc&lt;ConfigOptions&gt;&gt;

Returns the configuration properties for this execution if the execution has started</excerpt>
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Citations:

- 1: https://docs.rs/datafusion/latest/src/datafusion/execution/context/mod.rs.html?utm_source=openai
- 2: https://apache.googlesource.com/datafusion/%2B/e4f16dd60f8d7860792074c091998ea76dd98f74/datafusion/physical-expr/src/planner.rs?utm_source=openai
- 3: https://docs.rs/datafusion/latest/src/datafusion/execution/context/mod.rs.html?utm_source=openai
- 4: https://docs.rs/datafusion/latest/datafusion/physical_expr/fn.create_physical_expr.html?utm_source=openai

Preserve execution properties for deferred fallback planning.

plan_host rebuilds SessionState from TaskContext configuration and runtime only. DataFusion 55.2 stores variable providers in the original session's ExecutionProps, so a Rust caller can supply a fallback containing ScalarVariable and register its provider on the original session. When that fallback runs, physical planning can fail with a provider-not-found error; eager planning used the original session.

Carry the original execution properties, or at least its variable providers, into the deferred planning state. This is a narrow Rust API edge case, not a major issue: the repository exposes no provider-registration path in its Python integration, tests, or documentation.

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🪭 Claude (einfold): Fixed: EinFoldPlanner gives each EinFoldExec with a fallback the planning session's ExecutionProps, and plan_host builds its state with them, so variable providers (@name) reach the deferred planning. The new test fallbacks_plan_with_the_sessions_variables runs a fold whose fallback filters on @t. It fails without the fix.

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Preserve custom extension planners for deferred fallbacks.

FoldNode::with_fallback accepts any LogicalPlan. If a caller combines EinFoldPlanner with another ExtensionPlanner and supplies a fallback containing that planner's node, plan_host cannot plan the fallback because it installs only EinFoldPlanner. Preserve the required extension-planner support when deferring fallback planning.

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Update the physical planning path that invokes DefaultPhysicalPlanner to
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🪭 Claude (einfold): Not changed. Planning the fallback with the session's own planner would detect the same fold in it again, and loop. And DataFusion doesn't let a planner read another's extension planners: they're private to the session's QueryPlanner. When einfold is installed, its EinFoldQueryPlanner plans the whole query with EinFoldPlanner as the only extension planner, so a node another extension handles can't be planned with einfold installed in the first place, deferred or not. The deferred path matches that, and plan_host's doc now says so. Supporting other extensions would mean EinFoldQueryPlanner taking extra extension planners, for both paths. That's a feature, not a fix.

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A fold that keeps the host's plan, to run where the dense algorithm
declines, planned that plan with the operator: its subtree, the
operator's inputs included, a second time, and within it every inner
fold's fallback again, which in a deep plan grows with the square of its
depth. In the GPT of xarray-sql's ML demos, the 80 fallbacks of the
loss took 0.5 s of its 1.45 s of physical planning, and none of them
runs.

EinFoldExec now keeps its fallback as a logical plan and plans it only
when it runs, for the task that runs it: with that task's configuration
and runtime, and DataFusion's default physical optimizer rules. A plan
planned at run time needs no reset, so the operator's reset_state is
DataFusion's default again.

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…s would (#89)

🪭 Claude (einfold)

Fixes #74: `EinFoldExec` failed under a memory budget where the host's
spilling plan answers.

**Before.**
- `EinFoldExec` read its inputs whole, reserving them from the session's
memory pool, and failed where the pool couldn't give them.
- Its kernels' working arrays weren't reserved at all, as CodeRabbit
noted on #46.
- The host's hash aggregates and sorts spill to disk instead.
- So under a small pool, einfold alone ran out of memory about twice as
often as the host alone. #65's simulation found 36 cases against 19, and
the new test below finds 98 against 50.

**What changed.** This is #74's option 1, with the reservations of
option 2.

- **Every detected fold keeps the host's plan.** Since #87 a fallback is
planned only when it runs, so keeping one costs nothing until then.
Under `DetectFolds::default`, a fold still runs the discrimination
algorithm where the dense one declines
(`FoldNode::with_memory_fallback`). The host's plan runs only where
memory runs short.
- **`EinFoldExec` runs that plan wherever the pool refuses it:**
  - while it reads its inputs;
  - when the kernels ask for their working arrays;
  - when it reserves its output.
  
It counts these runs in a new metric, `memory_fallbacks`. Without a
fallback it fails, as an operator that can't spill does.
- **The kernels ask before they allocate.** `Options` gains a `budget`,
a `Budget` that answers whether some bytes more may be taken. A kernel
stops with `ArrowError::MemoryError` where it says no.
- The dense algorithm asks for its key casts, then for its matrices and
output once it knows their extents.
- The discrimination algorithm asks for its copies of the operands, its
ranks and orders, and its groups. It bounds the groups by the joined
pairs it counts first.
  
These are estimates within a small factor, and are written down where
they are made. `EinFoldExec` answers them from the session's pool.
- **The host's plan streams its rows through,** as it would in the
host's own plan. Before, it was collected whole and counted again.
- **einfold's own output gives back its reservation slice by slice** as
it is emitted. Whatever reads the output counts it if it keeps it, so
the output is no longer counted twice.

Fused pipelines don't ask a budget yet: their working tiles are small,
and their inputs are reserved as they are read.

**Measured** by the new property test, 2,000 cases from two seeds, under
pools of 2 KB to 256 KB:

| | before | after |
|---|---:|---:|
| out of memory in einfold only | 98, 98 | 13, 12 |
| out of memory in the host only | 50, 51 | 18, 19 |
| out of memory in both | 368, 388 | 400, 421 |
| einfold ran the host's plan for memory | 0 | 322, 330 |

The cases einfold alone still loses come from the plan above einfold's
operator, which differs from the host's. `EinFoldExec` reports no size
estimate, so for example a hash join above it builds on the other,
larger side. The next pull request gives it statistics.

On the GPT of xarray-sql's ML demos, planning and execution times are
unchanged, and the Python extension's tests pass.

**Tests, and the invariants they check.**

- `fold_matches_sql`, the kernels' property test against SQL, gains
invariant 5: given a budget of exactly the bytes they asked for, the
kernels give the same rows by the same algorithm, bit for bit; given one
byte fewer, they stop with a memory error. So a kernel asks before it
allocates, and asks the same for the same rows. It holds over the test's
400 default cases.
- `einfold_runs_short_of_memory_only_where_the_host_does` runs random
queries in the spellings of the detection sweep, with einfold and
without, each under its own pool of the same size. Where both answer,
they give the same rows. Neither fails but for memory. Einfold alone
runs short no more often than the host alone. And the host's plan runs
for memory in some cases.

## After CodeRabbit's review

- **A batch's reservation is released with its last slice,** not a share
with each, since its slices share its buffers.
- **The dense algorithm declines non-integer keys before reserving
anything,** so a fold it can't take leaves the budget to the
discrimination algorithm.

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alxmrs added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 30, 2026
🪭 Claude (einfold)

Nothing changes for users. Fixes #66, which never reached main, and adds
a test that would catch it if it did.

#66 reported a planning failure: `Cannot swap HashJoinExec inputs after
dynamic filters have been constructed`. DataFusion's physical optimizer
(the rules, such as `JoinSelection`, that rewrite a physical plan) was
optimizing a fold's fallback twice, where the fallback is the host's own
plan, run where einfold's kernels decline. The fallback was optimized
once when it was planned, and again as a child of `EinFoldExec`. That
child was a commit (a49e236) in the stack before it was squash-merged.
On main, `EinFoldExec`'s children have only ever been its operands, and
since #87 the fallback is a logical plan, planned only when it runs. So
the optimizer can't reach it twice.

## Decisions to review

- **A test of the cause, not of #66's query**
([`the_optimizer_sees_a_fallback_once`](crates/einfold-datafusion/tests/detect_vs_host.rs)).
A physical optimizer rule, `Leaves`, runs first in the session and keeps
every leaf of every plan it's given. It fails if it's ever given one
again. Recreating #66 by making the fallback a child, on the commit
before #87, fails it with "the physical optimizer was given a plan it
had optimized". It passes on main. The alternative was #66's own query,
but that passes even on a49e236: whether `JoinSelection` swaps depends
on the tables' partitions and statistics, which the soak varied and the
issue's SQL doesn't.
- **The simulation's skip for #66 goes**
(`Known::FallbackOptimizedTwice` in
[`simulation.rs`](crates/einfold-datafusion/tests/simulation.rs)). It
hid any error with #66's message, so the simulation now reports one as a
failure. A 5-minute soak without it ran 10,399 cases with no planning
errors. Its 4 failures are #112's first four seeds, DataFusion bugs that
#113 steps around.

## Not in this pull request

#112's DataFusion bugs: #113 steps the simulation around them.

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