question: protected DMLStatementNode bindAndTransform ( DMLStatementNode stmt ) { try { binder . bind ( stmt ) ; stmt = ( DMLStatementNode ) booleanNormalizer . normalize ( stmt ) ; typeComputer . compute ( stmt ) ; stmt = subqueryFlattener . flatten ( stmt ) ; if ( Boolean . parseBoolean ( getProperty ( "eliminate-distincts" , "true" ) ) ) stmt = distinctEliminator . eliminate ( stmt ) ; return stmt ; } catch ( StandardException ex ) { throw new SQLParserInternalException ( ex ) ; } }
target:  Apply AST-level transformations before rules. 