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This issue was discovered while validating our PDSH Q22 with re-generated input data (with decimal data + sorted columns)

When performing a decimal/float comparison for an inequality join, #20060 implemented aligning columns to decimals. For Q22, there was a disagreement in customer count because the float-to-decimal casting made cudf-polars filter out a row unnecessarily (e.g. a filter threshold of 4998.769056963132 got rounded up to 4998.77, then a row with a value of 4998.77 would get wrongly filtered)

An agent found that since the super-type of decimal & float is float in Polars, we should be evaluating these decimal/float comparisons by aligning to float instead

Additionally, the existing casting in _apply_casts would silently drop sorted metadata (if there was any), so changed them to variants that would preserve the metadata

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  • New or existing tests cover these changes.
  • The documentation is up to date with these changes.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved conditional joins that compare decimal and floating-point values.
    • Decimal values are now aligned more accurately during comparisons, including thresholds finer than the decimal scale.
    • Fixed joins combining decimal-to-float and decimal-to-decimal predicates.
    • Preserved join input columns while applying required numeric conversions.

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The conditional join implementation now uses graph-based analysis to align connected decimal and floating-point comparisons to Float64. Tests cover threshold comparisons across operators and combined decimal predicates.

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Conditional join cast alignment

Layer / File(s) Summary
Graph-based predicate cast alignment
python/cudf_polars/cudf_polars/dsl/ir.py
The join logic discovers connected column comparisons, assigns separate Float64 casts to left and right inputs, and preserves unchanged columns when applying casts.
Decimal and floating-point predicate validation
python/cudf_polars/tests/test_join.py
Conditional cross-join tests cover decimal comparisons with Float32 and Float64 thresholds, all supported operators, and combined decimal predicates.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to d57bc

This change corrects mixed decimal/float inequality-join comparisons and preserves sorted metadata without introducing a new merge-blocking risk; it is ready to merge after normal checks and review.

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Description check ✅ Passed The description clearly explains the decimal/float inequality join issue, the change to float alignment, the filtering correction, and metadata preservation.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the primary change: casting to float instead of decimal for decimal/float inequality joins in cudf-polars.
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python/cudf_polars/tests/test_join.py (1)

357-361: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a null value to the decimal input.

The new cast path runs astype on the decimal column. A null decimal operand exercises null-mask preservation through that cast and the AST comparison. The current frames contain no nulls.

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     left = pl.LazyFrame(
-        {"foo": [Decimal("2.49"), Decimal("2.50"), Decimal("2.51")]},
+        {"foo": [Decimal("2.49"), Decimal("2.50"), Decimal("2.51"), None]},
         schema={"foo": pl.Decimal(15, 2)},
     )

As per coding guidelines: "Missing edge case coverage (empty, all-null, single-element, mixed types)" and "Incorrect null/NA handling (cuDF uses nullable dtypes throughout)".

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In `@python/cudf_polars/tests/test_join.py` around lines 357 - 361, Add a null
decimal entry to the left LazyFrame’s foo input in the test covering the decimal
cast/comparison path, while preserving its Decimal(15, 2) schema and existing
non-null values. Ensure the test exercises null-mask preservation through astype
and the subsequent AST comparison.

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In `@python/cudf_polars/tests/test_join.py`:
- Around line 357-361: Add a null decimal entry to the left LazyFrame’s foo
input in the test covering the decimal cast/comparison path, while preserving
its Decimal(15, 2) schema and existing non-null values. Ensure the test
exercises null-mask preservation through astype and the subsequent AST
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Can you check performance on TPC-H on decimal data?

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Can you check performance on TPC-H on decimal data?

My dev machine has L4s, so I ran pdsh.py with SF-10 (3 iterations, SPMD) to avoid spilling. Let me know if there's a different scale factor you want me to run this with, but I'll probably need to find access to another machine.

metric value
Geometric mean of per-query mean runtime 0.2361 s
Total average runtime (sum of per-query means) 6.5011 s
Sum of fastest iteration per query 4.9491 s
query median (s)
q1 0.4238
q2 0.1586
q3 0.2098
q4 0.1534
q5 0.2132
q6 0.1492
q7 0.3258
q8 0.2831
q9 0.2702
q10 0.2508
q11 0.1184
q12 0.1744
q13 0.2131
q14 0.1787
q15 0.1938
q16 0.1648
q17 0.1980
q18 0.2633
q19 0.3372
q20 0.2542
q21 0.4905
q22 0.1214

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