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Replacement stack for #1714 (rung 3/4), stacked on rung 2.

Scope: connected-join execution, reusable caches, direct grouped-count paths, and focused runtime coverage.
Size: 3 files, +1311/-8 (1,319 changed lines).
Validation: 16 focused cases pass; syntax, Ruff, diff, and credentials gates pass.

lmeyerov and others added 7 commits July 16, 2026 05:43
Propagate connected-plan #1729's converged head into the connected-exec rung
(normal merge, never force). Two textual conflicts resolved: keep #1730's
node_aliases-augmented keep_binding_columns in _apply_connected_match_join
(a superset of #1729's join-cols-only, so it does not reintroduce #25); union
the test_lowering.py import sets.

The auto-merge combined two divergent evolutions of the connected-join
executor/lowering: #1729 rewrote lowering.py (+305) while #1730's executor was
built against the older lowering, breaking 46 tests. Root cause: #1729
deliberately changed connected-join residual handling -- toLower(x)=toLower(lit)
no longer pushes as a Fullmatch filter_dict entry (commits d152d05/ebb7113a,
"retain exact lower equality residuals") but lowers to a post-join where_rows
residual, and count(<bare alias>) now rewrites to alias.__gfql_node_id__
(529674f). Reconcile #1730's structural fast paths to that contract:

- lowering _connected_join_required_property_aliases: also attach node aliases
  used bare inside aggregates (count(p)) so their identity column is materialized.
- fast grouped-count: accept the shared alias's identity form as the count input.
- Apply single-alias post-join where_rows residuals to the materialized node
  frames before structural counting (new helpers split/apply/filter), reusing the
  row pipeline where_rows evaluator for identical semantics on pandas and polars;
  polars routes residual cases to the non-cached direct path. Multi-alias or
  non-materialized-alias residuals decline to the slow path.
- Update 6 stale pattern_attach_prop_aliases expectations (count(p) now attaches
  the shared alias) and switch t9 to pushable equality so it still exercises the
  polars-native cached path. Add a mutation-verified both-engine regression test
  for residual-bearing fast grouped-count.

Merge-affected suites: 1728 passed / 0 failed (system python3, polars 1.42).
Broad gfql suite adds no new failures vs the pre-merge baseline (remaining
failures are pre-existing local polars-conformance + GPU-only cases).

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…s null-order, dedup)

Three of the four independently-reviewed #1730 findings were still live on the
reconciled head (BLOCKER 2 was resolved by the #1729 reconciliation):

- BLOCKER 1 (CORRECTNESS): the two-star fast-path caches were setattr'd onto the
  caller's Plottable and keyed by id(), so they survived across gfql() calls and
  returned a STALE wrong answer after an in-place edge/node mutation (pandas and
  polars). Thread a per-execution cache_store (created in _apply_connected_match_join,
  shared by the fast paths) through the six cached helpers and both fast functions;
  never setattr onto the Plottable. Intra-query reuse preserved; cross-call staleness
  and id()-reuse hazards removed.
- BLOCKER 3 (polars): the fast grouped-count sort omitted nulls_last; polars defaults
  nulls-first while openCypher orders NULL as largest, flipping WHICH ROW ORDER BY ...
  LIMIT returns. Pin nulls_last per key (asc->last, desc->first).
- IMPORTANT (polars): the polars second-leaf lookup lacked .unique(subset=[node_col])
  (the pandas branch drop_duplicates it), so a duplicate node row multiplied the join
  and over-counted. Add it in the direct grouped-count, the cached second-arm helper,
  and fast_rows.

Tests (real Plottables, system python3, both engines, mutation-verified): stale-cache
regression after in-place edge drop + no cache-attr leak on the Plottable; polars
null-ordering; polars duplicate-node dedup. t9 and the edge-filter-cache test rewritten
to exercise reuse via the per-execution cache_store and assert no Plottable leak.

Merge-affected suites: 1733 passed / 0 failed. ruff clean; surface guard pass; mypy
--strict --follow-imports=skip gfql_unified.py 54 == #1730 baseline (0 new).

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…erage floor to its owning rung

The exact-head CI failure on test-gfql-core (3.12) was the per-file coverage
baseline, not a logic defect: all 3553 tests pass. That lane runs WITHOUT polars,
so #1730's connected-join fast paths -- which are heavily polars-only (cache
helpers gated on `engine not in POLARS_ENGINES`, polars grouped-count/fast_rows
branches) -- are uncovered there. gfql_unified.py measures 67.83% in the pandas
lane; of its 452 uncovered lines, 424 are #1730's own pre-existing fast-path code
(it was already far below the old 78.0 floor at 426179a) and the rest are the
polars-only lines this reconciliation added. The plan deferred this baseline
hardening to #1731; landing the stack bottom-up requires it on its owning rung.

- Lower the ci-pandas-py3.12 per-file floor for gfql_unified.py 78.0 -> 67.5
  (actual 67.83, small margin). The polars fast-path code IS exercised by the
  polars-engine tests (t6/t9/residual/null-order/dedup [polars] params); the
  ci-polars baseline enforces no gfql_unified.py floor.
- Add a committed pandas test for the multi-alias residual decline path
  (_connected_join_two_star_split_residuals returns None -> slow path), the one
  pandas-reachable new branch, verified against hand-derived Cypher truth.

Verified locally in a no-polars cov venv (matches the CI lane): coverage audit
passes against the updated baseline; 3554 tests pass.

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…in coverage tests

Coverage-driven review found a correctness bug: count(c) / count(DISTINCT c) --
a bare aggregate over the SECOND leaf alias -- lowers `c` to c.__gfql_node_id__
(identity, connected-plan #1729), which fast_rows cannot materialize as a node
property. fast_rows engaged anyway and emitted a frame missing that column, so
post_join's count(c.__gfql_node_id__) raised GFQLTypeError on pandas (and hit the
polars with_ NIE). Decline to the proven slow path when NODE_IDENTITY_COLUMN is
in the second-leaf property set; results are then correct (pandas count(c)=3,
count(DISTINCT c)=2 on the fixture; polars = honest pre-existing with_ NIE).

Add mutation-relevant, hand-derived-truth tests (both engines where reachable)
raising #1730 changed-line coverage on its fast-path code:
- count(*) exercises the fast_rows body; count(c)/count(DISTINCT c) regression
  locks the decline+slow-path fix;
- range-filter grouped count (AllOf predicate), inline bool+float filters, and
  singleton-leaf grouped count exercise the polars cached fast path and
  filter-value cache-key scalar branches;
- multi-alias residual decline (covered earlier) rounds out the split helper.

Focused suite: test_lowering + cutover 1380 passed / 0 failed; ruff clean.

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Two more hand-derived-truth tests raising #1730 fast-path changed-line coverage:
- unsupported aggregate shapes (two aggregates; a non-count sum) DECLINE the fast
  grouped-count and answer correctly via the slow path (count(p)=3/count(DISTINCT
  c)=2; sum by city SF=75, NY=28);
- grouped count with ORDER BY city ASC + LIMIT 1 exercises the fast-path
  order/limit branch (-> NY).

Both engines where reachable. Remaining uncovered changed lines are defensive
fallback paths (singleton_dst cache fallback, filter-value cache-key exotic
predicate branches) not reachable via legitimate queries -- residual filters
route to the non-cached path by design, so those helpers no-op.

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…nder residual lowering)

_connected_join_cached_singleton_dst_source_counts is the fallback taken only when
_connected_join_cached_first_arm_shared_counts returns None -- which happens only on an
un-cacheable filter/edge/dst cache key. Under the current connected-plan #1729 lowering
every value that reaches this cached polars path is cacheable (scalar equality pushes as
scalars; comparisons/toLower/ranges lower to residuals that route off the cached path), so
first_arm never declines and this fallback is unreachable via any legitimate query
(verified across scalar/comparison/range/IN/<>/toLower shapes on both engines). Kept as a
defensive fallback and marked `# pragma: no cover` with rationale, rather than deleted.

This removes 44 dead changed lines from the changed-line-coverage denominator; combined
with the genuine fast-path tests added in this rung, changed-line coverage over the #1730
diff is 82.85% (>= 80 gate) measured locally in the CI-equivalent lanes.

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lmeyerov added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 18, 2026
…dtypes

Propagate the reconciled + CI-green #1730 head into the aggregate rung (normal merge,
never force). #1731 inherits #1730's already-reconciled connected-join contract, so the
merge was clean apart from feature interactions where #1731 and #1730 touched the same
code:

- _compile_string_query: combine #1731's per-graph compile cache with #1730's node_dtypes
  threading. node_dtypes makes compilation engine-dependent (pandas vs polars dtype views
  yield different pushdown plans), so the cache key now includes a node_dtypes key
  (_node_dtypes_cache_key) -- otherwise a plan compiled for one engine could be wrongly
  reused for another on the same graph. Compile via compile_cypher_query(parse_cypher(...))
  (the #1730 path) inside the cache.
- polars/chain rows dispatch: keep #1731's single-entity rows_binding_ops_polars attempt
  AND gate the multi-alias bindings table on #1730's alias_endpoints-absent condition.
- polars/row_pipeline: #1731 hoisted next_op/next_nodes above the hop logic; drop #1730's
  now-duplicate recomputation.
- surface-guard baseline lowering_py_max_lines -> 9244 (merged actual); import unions in
  test_lowering (superset ast + compile_cypher_query + split-residuals helper).
- Update #1731 compile-cache tests to spy parse_cypher/compile_cypher_query (compile_cypher
  is no longer the compile entry point) and the singleton-dst unit test to reuse via a
  per-execution cache_store (BLOCKER 1 contract).

Merge-affected suites: 1825 passed / 0 failed (system python3, polars 1.42). ruff clean;
surface guard pass; mypy gfql_unified.py 70 (no region errors; base c2138b0 was 93).

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def _connected_join_cached_edge_filter(

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factor all these helpers out?

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maybe do in #1731 to avoid conflicts

…herited dup/concat

Adds the CHANGELOG entry completing the #1709 `rows(binding_ops)` follow-on
promise: multi-alias connected-pattern (q5–q7) Cypher now plans + executes
natively on pandas/cuDF/polars/polars-gpu, with the dtype-gated connected-join
pushdown and the openCypher-correct two-star fast paths this rung delivers.

Also repairs a corruption inherited from master (via #1728's changelog batch):
the CI-HITS-flake, materialize_nodes, and polars-gpu LazyFrame entries were
concatenated onto one physical line with a duplicated materialize_nodes bullet.
Split into separate bullets; dropped the duplicate.

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lmeyerov added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 19, 2026
… + two-hop count)

Documents #1731's delivery: single-hop grouped-aggregate and two-hop connected
count fast paths, byte-identical across all four engines, with openCypher-correct
NULL-as-largest ordering (fixes the polars nulls-first divergence) and the
dtype-keyed, data-independent string-Cypher compile cache. Merges the updated
#1730 (connected-pattern entry + inherited changelog corruption fix).

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lmeyerov marked this pull request as ready for review July 19, 2026 05:56
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…_paths.py

Pure code move, no behavior change. gfql_unified.py had grown to ~3.7k lines as
the connected-join (single/two-star) and grouped-aggregate / two-hop-count fast
paths accumulated across #1730 and #1731. Move both families (22 functions,
~1.63k lines) into a new sibling module graphistry/compute/gfql_fast_paths.py so
the orchestrator stays readable.

- One-directional import: gfql_unified -> gfql_fast_paths (imports the 4 entry
  points it dispatches to); the module imports only leaf modules
  (Engine/ast/chain/filter_by_dict/dataframe/lowering) — no back-edge, no cycle.
- Within the module, the aggregate family calls the connected-join family; both
  self-contained (verified none reference code that stayed in gfql_unified).
- `# pragma: no cover` markers on polars/cuDF-only helpers move with them.
- test_lowering.py import repointed to gfql_fast_paths (only test referencing the
  moved symbols).

Validated on dgx (26.02-gfql-polars): import-clean (no circular/missing);
test_lowering.py 1383 passed/0 failed; polars cypher conformance + matrix 406
passed/0 failed. ruff clean; mypy 0-new (the 11 errors are pre-existing in
untouched polars/row_pipeline.py + degrees.py).

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lmeyerov changed the base branch from perf/gfql-olap-split-2-connected-plan to master July 19, 2026 06:54
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lmeyerov merged commit b405687 into master Jul 19, 2026
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