[SPARK-5642] [SQL] Apply column pruning on unused aggregation fields

select k from (select key k, max(value) v from src group by k) t

Author: Daoyuan Wang <daoyuan.wang@intel.com>
Author: Michael Armbrust <michael@databricks.com>

Closes #4415 from adrian-wang/groupprune and squashes the following commits:

5d2d8a3 [Daoyuan Wang] address Michael's comments
61f8ef7 [Daoyuan Wang] add a unit test
80ddcc6 [Daoyuan Wang] keep project
b69d385 [Daoyuan Wang] add a prune rule for grouping set

Author: adrian-wang

sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/optimizer/Optimizer.scala

@@ -119,6 +119,15 @@ object ColumnPruning extends Rule[LogicalPlan] {
     case a @ Aggregate(_, _, child) if (child.outputSet -- a.references).nonEmpty =>
       a.copy(child = Project(a.references.toSeq, child))
 
+    case p @ Project(projectList, a @ Aggregate(groupingExpressions, aggregateExpressions, child))
+        if (a.outputSet -- p.references).nonEmpty =>
+      Project(
+        projectList,
+        Aggregate(
+          groupingExpressions,
+          aggregateExpressions.filter(e => p.references.contains(e)),
+          child))
+
     // Eliminate unneeded attributes from either side of a Join.
     case Project(projectList, Join(left, right, joinType, condition)) =>
       // Collect the list of all references required either above or to evaluate the condition.

sql/catalyst/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/optimizer/FilterPushdownSuite.scala

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ package org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.optimizer
 
 import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.analysis
 import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.analysis.EliminateSubQueries
-import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.expressions.Explode
+import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.expressions.{Count, Explode}
 import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.plans.logical._
 import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.plans.{PlanTest, LeftOuter, RightOuter}
 import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.rules._
@@ -37,7 +37,8 @@ class FilterPushdownSuite extends PlanTest {
         CombineFilters,
         PushPredicateThroughProject,
         PushPredicateThroughJoin,
-        PushPredicateThroughGenerate) :: Nil
+        PushPredicateThroughGenerate,
+        ColumnPruning) :: Nil
   }
 
   val testRelation = LocalRelation('a.int, 'b.int, 'c.int)
@@ -58,6 +59,38 @@ class FilterPushdownSuite extends PlanTest {
     comparePlans(optimized, correctAnswer)
   }
 
+  test("column pruning for group") {
+    val originalQuery =
+      testRelation
+        .groupBy('a)('a, Count('b))
+        .select('a)
+
+    val optimized = Optimize(originalQuery.analyze)
+    val correctAnswer =
+      testRelation
+        .select('a)
+        .groupBy('a)('a)
+        .select('a).analyze
+
+    comparePlans(optimized, correctAnswer)
+  }
+
+  test("column pruning for group with alias") {
+    val originalQuery =
+      testRelation
+        .groupBy('a)('a as 'c, Count('b))
+        .select('c)
+
+    val optimized = Optimize(originalQuery.analyze)
+    val correctAnswer =
+      testRelation
+        .select('a)
+        .groupBy('a)('a as 'c)
+        .select('c).analyze
+
+    comparePlans(optimized, correctAnswer)
+  }
+
   // After this line is unimplemented.
   test("simple push down") {
     val originalQuery =