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Improve consistency of expression names #3330

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@andygrove

Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge? Please describe what you are trying to do.
We have many different ways to create names from expressions with duplicated and sometimes inconsistent code.

Logical Expression:

  • Display trait
  • Debug trait
  • Expr.name() method (wrapper for create_name function)
  • ExprIdentifierVisitor::desc_expr

Physical Expression:

  • Display trait
  • Debug trait
  • create_physical_name function

One example of confusion is that queries sometimes result in field names containing Divide and sometimes /. For example:

  • decimal_simple.c1 / CAST(Float64(0.00001) AS Decimal128(5, 5)) uses /
  • CAST(decimal_simple.c1 AS Decimal128(30, 19)) Divide CAST(decimal_simple.c5 AS Decimal128(30, 19)) uses Divide

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Make names more consistent and avoid duplicate code

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