SNOW-2203826: Loosen flattening rules for sort and filter

[sfc-gh-yixie]

Some old commits in the main branch were changed so #3941 can't be merged. This PR is a recreation of #3941 with the same code change.

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   Fixes SNOW-2203826

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[graphite-app]

Race condition in _retrieve_aggregation_function_list(). The method checks if context._aggregation_function_set is populated at line 4935 without holding the lock, but only acquires the lock at line 4957 before updating. This creates a check-then-act race condition.

Issue: Multiple threads calling filter() concurrently could all see an empty set at line 4935, bypass the early return, and all execute the database queries simultaneously, leading to:

• Multiple redundant database queries
• Potential thread contention when updating the set
• Wasted resources

Fix:

def _retrieve_aggregation_function_list(self) -> None:
    if not context._is_snowpark_connect_compatible_mode:
        return
    
    with context._aggregation_function_set_lock:
        # Re-check inside the lock
        if context._aggregation_function_set:
            return
        
        retrieved_set = set()
        for sql in [...]:
            # ... query logic ...
        
        context._aggregation_function_set.update(retrieved_set)

Suggested change

	def _retrieve_aggregation_function_list(self) -> None:
	"""Retrieve the list of aggregation functions which will later be used in sql simplifier."""
	if (
	not context._is_snowpark_connect_compatible_mode
	or context._aggregation_function_set
	):
	return
	retrieved_set = set()
	for sql in [
	"""select function_name from information_schema.functions where is_aggregate = 'YES'""",
	"""show functions ->> select "name" from $1 where "is_aggregate" = 'Y'""",
	]:
	try:
	retrieved_set.update({r[0].lower() for r in self.sql(sql).collect()})
	except BaseException as e:
	_logger.debug(
	"Unable to get aggregation functions from the database: %s",
	e,
	)
	# we raise error here as a pessimistic tactics
	# the reason is that if we fail to retrieve the aggregation function list, we have empty set
	# the simplifier will flatten the query which contains aggregation functions leading to incorrect results
	raise
	with context._aggregation_function_set_lock:
	context._aggregation_function_set.update(retrieved_set)
	def _retrieve_aggregation_function_list(self) -> None:
	"""Retrieve the list of aggregation functions which will later be used in sql simplifier."""
	if not context._is_snowpark_connect_compatible_mode:
	return
	# First check without lock for performance
	if context._aggregation_function_set:
	return
	with context._aggregation_function_set_lock:
	# Re-check inside the lock
	if context._aggregation_function_set:
	return
	retrieved_set = set()
	for sql in [
	"""select function_name from information_schema.functions where is_aggregate = 'YES'""",
	"""show functions ->> select "name" from $1 where "is_aggregate" = 'Y'""",
	]:
	try:
	retrieved_set.update({r[0].lower() for r in self.sql(sql).collect()})
	except BaseException as e:
	_logger.debug(
	"Unable to get aggregation functions from the database: %s",
	e,
	)
	# we raise error here as a pessimistic tactics
	# the reason is that if we fail to retrieve the aggregation function list, we have empty set
	# the simplifier will flatten the query which contains aggregation functions leading to incorrect results
	raise
	context._aggregation_function_set.update(retrieved_set)

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