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[CALCITE-4465] Estimate the number of distinct values by predicates
According to our current implementation (RelMdDistinctRowCount), estimating the number of distinctive values (NDV) does not make good use of the filter condition. It simply forwards the call to its input operator with the fiter condition attached.
In fact, more information can be obtained for some special but commonly used conditions. For example, given condition x = 'a', we can deduce that NDV( x ) <= 1. Given condition x in ('a', 'b'), we can deduce that NDV( x ) <= 2.
More generally, if we have x in ('a', 'b') AND y in ('c', 'd', 'e'), we have NDV(x, y) <= 2 * 3 = 6.