Add allow_nondeterministic_optimize_skip_unused_shards

docs/en/operations/settings/settings.md

@@ -1398,6 +1398,17 @@ Possible values:
 
 Default value: 0
 
+## allow_nondeterministic_optimize_skip_unused_shards {#allow-nondeterministic-optimize-skip-unused-shards}
+
+Allow nondeterministic (like `rand` or `dictGet`, since later has some caveats with updates) functions in sharding key.
+
+Possible values:
+
+-   0 — Disallowed.
+-   1 — Allowed.
+
+Default value: 0
+
 ## optimize_skip_unused_shards_nesting {#optimize-skip-unused-shards-nesting}
 
 Controls [`optimize_skip_unused_shards`](#optimize-skip-unused-shards) (hence still requires [`optimize_skip_unused_shards`](#optimize-skip-unused-shards)) depends on the nesting level of the distributed query (case when you have `Distributed` table that look into another `Distributed` table).

src/Core/Settings.h

@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ class IColumn;
     M(UInt64, distributed_group_by_no_merge, 0, "If 1, Do not merge aggregation states from different servers for distributed query processing - in case it is for certain that there are different keys on different shards. If 2 - same as 1 but also apply ORDER BY and LIMIT stages", 0) \
     M(Bool, optimize_distributed_group_by_sharding_key, false, "Optimize GROUP BY sharding_key queries (by avodiing costly aggregation on the initiator server).", 0) \
     M(Bool, optimize_skip_unused_shards, false, "Assumes that data is distributed by sharding_key. Optimization to skip unused shards if SELECT query filters by sharding_key.", 0) \
+    M(Bool, allow_nondeterministic_optimize_skip_unused_shards, false, "Allow non-deterministic functions (includes dictGet) in sharding_key for optimize_skip_unused_shards", 0) \
     M(UInt64, force_optimize_skip_unused_shards, 0, "Throw an exception if unused shards cannot be skipped (1 - throw only if the table has the sharding key, 2 - always throw.", 0) \
     M(UInt64, optimize_skip_unused_shards_nesting, 0, "Same as optimize_skip_unused_shards, but accept nesting level until which it will work.", 0) \
     M(UInt64, force_optimize_skip_unused_shards_nesting, 0, "Same as force_optimize_skip_unused_shards, but accept nesting level until which it will work.", 0) \

src/Storages/StorageDistributed.cpp

@@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ QueryProcessingStage::Enum StorageDistributed::getQueryProcessingStage(const Con
     if (settings.optimize_skip_unused_shards &&
         settings.optimize_distributed_group_by_sharding_key &&
         has_sharding_key &&
-        sharding_key_is_deterministic)
+        (settings.allow_nondeterministic_optimize_skip_unused_shards || sharding_key_is_deterministic))
     {
         Block sharding_key_block = sharding_key_expr->getSampleBlock();
         auto stage = getOptimizedQueryProcessingStage(query_ptr, settings.extremes, sharding_key_block);
@@ -710,7 +710,9 @@ ClusterPtr StorageDistributed::getOptimizedCluster(const Context & context, cons
     ClusterPtr cluster = getCluster();
     const Settings & settings = context.getSettingsRef();
 
-    if (has_sharding_key && sharding_key_is_deterministic)
+    bool sharding_key_is_usable = settings.allow_nondeterministic_optimize_skip_unused_shards || sharding_key_is_deterministic;
+
+    if (has_sharding_key && sharding_key_is_usable)
     {
         ClusterPtr optimized = skipUnusedShards(cluster, query_ptr, metadata_snapshot, context);
         if (optimized)
@@ -723,7 +725,7 @@ ClusterPtr StorageDistributed::getOptimizedCluster(const Context & context, cons
         std::stringstream exception_message;
         if (!has_sharding_key)
             exception_message << "No sharding key";
-        else if (!sharding_key_is_deterministic)
+        else if (!sharding_key_is_usable)
             exception_message << "Sharding key is not deterministic";
         else
             exception_message << "Sharding key " << sharding_key_column_name << " is not used";

tests/queries/0_stateless/01528_allow_nondeterministic_optimize_skip_unused_shards.sql

+drop table if exists dist_01528;
+create table dist_01528 as system.one engine=Distributed('test_cluster_two_shards', system, one, rand()+dummy);
+
+set optimize_skip_unused_shards=1;
+set force_optimize_skip_unused_shards=1;
+select * from dist_01528 where dummy = 2; -- { serverError 507; }
+select * from dist_01528 where dummy = 2 settings allow_nondeterministic_optimize_skip_unused_shards=1;