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This change introduces a logical optimizer rule that canonicalizes expressions during optimization.

Some optimizer rules compare expressions semantically (e.g., deduplication or equality checks). Applying expression.canonical() ensures structurally equivalent expressions normalize to the same canonical form before such comparisons.

This helps maintain consistent behavior across optimizer rules that rely on canonicalized expressions.

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The current failures appear unrelated to this change.

My earlier compile issue in the ESQL optimizer was fixed. The remaining failures are in x-pack inference rolling-upgrade BWC tests, for example:

:x-pack:plugin:inference:qa:rolling-upgrade:v8.19.13#bwcTest

with AuthorizationTaskExecutorUpgradeIT failing while waiting for cluster readiness (503 Service Unavailable).

This PR only changes ESQL logical optimization for #137892.

Addressed the review suggestion in CanonicalizeExpressions by avoiding a new expression instance when the canonical form is equal to the original.

The remaining CI failures appear to be in unrelated rolling-upgrade/BWC suites (logsdb / inference) with cluster readiness errors (503 Service Unavailable).

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Thanks, the remaining failures still look unrelated to #137892.

The failing checks are in rolling-upgrade / BWC suites outside the ESQL area touched by this PR (for example inference and logsdb), and the common failure pattern is cluster startup/readiness during upgrade with WaitForHttpResource / waitUntilReady returning 503 Service Unavailable, rather than an assertion failure tied to the optimizer change.

The CI is noisy but does show a few problems that look related to the PR.

After locally

% git remote add YeswanthC7 git@github.com:YeswanthC7/elasticsearch.git
% git fetch YeswanthC7
% git checkout -b patch-4 YeswanthC7/patch-4

and running ./gradlew :x-pack:plugin:esql:test I see many tests failing with this error. E.g.

I suggest

• updating the branch to merge latest changes from main
• running a local test ./gradlew ":x-pack:plugin:esql:test"
• examining the failures

Thanks, this does look related to my change.

Updated the branch with the latest changes from main and pushed the merge commit. The PR is now on the refreshed branch, and I am waiting for CI to rerun on the updated changes.

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Thanks, I checked the rebuilt CI logs after the latest change. The remaining failures now appear to be ESQL optimizer-related rather than just infra flakiness: mixed-cluster and multi-cluster ESQL tests are hitting Rule execution limit [100] reached inside LogicalPlanOptimizer.optimize(...). I am investigating the canonicalization rule for non-converging rewrites in BWC/mixed-cluster scenarios and will update the PR with a fix.

I pushed an update to address the optimizer loop issue by moving CanonicalizeExpressions into a separate Limiter.ONCE batch before operator optimization. It looks like the required CI checks have not picked up the latest commit yet. Could someone please retrigger Buildkite when convenient? Thanks.

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The latest CI failures look PR-related. I updated the PR to remove the plan-wide CanonicalizeExpressions rule, dropped the extra class, and fixed the changelog entry schema. This narrows the change and addresses the ES|QL regressions seen in CI. A maintainer-side CI rerun would help validate the reduced fix.

It appears the previous commit removed all the logic associated with this PR leaving only the changelog.

You’re right, the previous change backed out the plan-wide rewrite while I was narrowing the fix, and that left the PR without the intended logic. I am reworking it to keep the change scoped by applying canonicalization only in the comparison/dedup path instead of as a global optimizer rule, and I will push an updated implementation.

I updated the fix to scope ES|QL aggregate canonicalization to the dedup/comparison path instead of applying it as a plan-wide rewrite. I also updated the changelog entry to reflect the narrower change. A maintainer-side CI rerun would help validate the fix.

As with many part of elastic, at first glance an improvement like this
looks like it should be straightforward but may turn out trickier than
it looks because other optimizer rules may accidentally work against
the canonicalization of the expressions, and may accidentally cause an
infinite loop where one optimizer rule undoes what the other did.

The initial approach is promising but looking at the test output
I think you may have stumbled into such a situation. If you can
identify the loop we can more easily determine what else needs
to be changed to accommodate this improvement.

The guidelines for Contributing to Elasticsearch recommend

• discussing the approach on the GitHub issue
• cloning the repository on your local machine
• running the test suite to make sure that nothing is broken

Since it looks like you've encountered a loop, I think it would be productive
to investigate one of the test failures more closely to identify the loop.
e.g. the one mentioned earlier

REPRODUCE WITH: ./gradlew ":x-pack:plugin:esql:test" --tests "org.elasticsearch.xpack.esql.planner.PlanConcurrencyCalculatorTests.testWhereAfterLimit" -Dtests.seed=244CC8BDAC64731 -Dtests.locale=kl-GL -Dtests.timezone=Australia/Tasmania -Druntime.java=25

What do you think?