Backport #48998 to 23.3: Fix incorrect createColumn call on join clause

src/Interpreters/ExpressionAnalyzer.cpp

@@ -1020,13 +1020,6 @@ static std::shared_ptr<IJoin> chooseJoinAlgorithm(
 {
     const auto & settings = context->getSettings();
 
-    Block left_sample_block(left_sample_columns);
-    for (auto & column : left_sample_block)
-    {
-        if (!column.column)
-            column.column = column.type->createColumn();
-    }
-
     Block right_sample_block = joined_plan->getCurrentDataStream().header;
 
     std::vector<String> tried_algorithms;
@@ -1072,7 +1065,10 @@ static std::shared_ptr<IJoin> chooseJoinAlgorithm(
     if (analyzed_join->isEnabledAlgorithm(JoinAlgorithm::GRACE_HASH))
     {
         tried_algorithms.push_back(toString(JoinAlgorithm::GRACE_HASH));
-        if (GraceHashJoin::isSupported(analyzed_join))
+
+        // Grace hash join requires that columns exist in left_sample_block.
+        Block left_sample_block(left_sample_columns);
+        if (sanitizeBlock(left_sample_block, false) && GraceHashJoin::isSupported(analyzed_join))
             return std::make_shared<GraceHashJoin>(context, analyzed_join, left_sample_block, right_sample_block, context->getTempDataOnDisk());
     }
 

tests/queries/0_stateless/02724_function_in_left_table_clause_asof_join.reference

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+1

tests/queries/0_stateless/02724_function_in_left_table_clause_asof_join.sql

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+select count(*)
+from (
+  select 1 as id, [1, 2, 3] as arr
+) as sessions
+ASOF LEFT JOIN (
+  select 1 as session_id, 4 as id
+) as visitors
+ON visitors.session_id <= sessions.id AND arrayFirst(a -> a, arrayMap((a) -> a, sessions.arr)) = visitors.id