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  2. SERVER-74344

Ban use of sparse indexes on internal comparison expression unless explicitly hinted

    • Type: Icon: Task Task
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Priority: Icon: Major - P3 Major - P3
    • 7.0.0-rc0, 5.0.18, 6.0.7, 4.4.29
    • Affects Version/s: None
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    • Fully Compatible
    • v6.3, v6.2, v6.0, v5.0, v4.4
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      The $expr comparison queries have the different semantics as the same comparison queries in a find query. Consider the following two queries and one document w/o the field 'missing',

      $expr Query: db.test.find({$expr: { $lt : ["$missing", "r"] }})

      find Query: db.test.find({"$missing": { $lt: "r" }})

      Document with missing field: {a:1}

      The $expr Query uses the aggregate expression to evaluate the comparison. The agg expression will evaluate $missing to null and still apply the comparison (null < “r”). So the expression is "true" and the document {a: 1} is returned. The find query applies type bracketing on field "missing", documents w/o the 'missing' field will not be evaluated in the comparison at all. These are both expected behaviors in MQL. 

       

      However, the use of a sparse index in the same $expr query can cause returning incomplete results, because a sparse index does not index missing field or the document that does not have any indexed field. Take the same $expr example above, if a sparse index ({"$missing": 1} {sparse: true}) was used to answer {$expr: { $lt : ["$missing", "r"] }}, document {a: 1} is not indexed and will not be compared either, which is supposed to be returned by the semantics of the $expr query.

       

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            ruoxin.xu@mongodb.com Ruoxin Xu
            Reporter:
            ruoxin.xu@mongodb.com Ruoxin Xu
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