diff --git a/dbcon/execplan/predicateoperator.h b/dbcon/execplan/predicateoperator.h
index 66120eb9c..f28b289f1 100644
--- a/dbcon/execplan/predicateoperator.h
+++ b/dbcon/execplan/predicateoperator.h
@@ -128,405 +128,6 @@ private:
     const CHARSET_INFO* cs;
 };
 
-inline bool PredicateOperator::getBoolVal(rowgroup::Row& row, bool& isNull, ReturnedColumn* lop, ReturnedColumn* rop)
-{
-    // like operator. both sides are string.
-    if (fOp == OP_LIKE || fOp == OP_NOTLIKE)
-    {
-        SP_CNX_Regex regex = rop->regex();
-
-        // Ugh. The strings returned by getStrVal have null padding out to the col width. boost::regex
-        //  considers these nulls significant, but they're not in the pattern, so we need to strip
-        //   them off...
-        const std::string& v = lop->getStrVal(row, isNull);
-//        char* c = (char*)alloca(v.length() + 1);
-//        memcpy(c, v.c_str(), v.length());
-//        c[v.length()] = 0;
-//        std::string vv(c);
-
-        if (regex)
-        {
-#ifdef POSIX_REGEX
-            bool ret = regexec(regex.get(), v.c_str(), 0, NULL, 0) == 0;
-#else
-            bool ret = boost::regex_match(v.c_str(), *regex);
-#endif
-            return (((fOp == OP_LIKE) ? ret : !ret) && !isNull);
-        }
-        else
-        {
-#ifdef POSIX_REGEX
-            regex_t regex;
-            std::string str = dataconvert::DataConvert::constructRegexp(rop->getStrVal(row, isNull));
-            regcomp(&regex, str.c_str(), REG_NOSUB | REG_EXTENDED);
-            bool ret = regexec(&regex, v.c_str(), 0, NULL, 0) == 0;
-            regfree(&regex);
-#else
-            boost::regex regex(dataconvert::DataConvert::constructRegexp(rop->getStrVal(row, isNull)));
-            bool ret = boost::regex_match(v.c_str(), regex);
-#endif
-            return (((fOp == OP_LIKE) ? ret : !ret) && !isNull);
-        }
-    }
-
-    // fOpType should have already been set on the connector during parsing
-    switch (fOperationType.colDataType)
-    {
-        case execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::BIGINT:
-        case execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::INT:
-        case execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::MEDINT:
-        case execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::TINYINT:
-        case execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::SMALLINT:
-        {
-            if (fOp == OP_ISNULL)
-            {
-                lop->getIntVal(row, isNull);
-                bool ret = isNull;
-                isNull = false;
-                return ret;
-            }
-
-            if (fOp == OP_ISNOTNULL)
-            {
-                lop->getIntVal(row, isNull);
-                bool ret = isNull;
-                isNull = false;
-                return !ret;
-            }
-
-            if (isNull)
-                return false;
-
-            int64_t val1 = lop->getIntVal(row, isNull);
-
-            if (isNull)
-                return false;
-
-            return numericCompare(val1,  rop->getIntVal(row, isNull)) && !isNull;
-        }
-
-        case execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::UBIGINT:
-        case execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::UINT:
-        case execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::UMEDINT:
-        case execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::UTINYINT:
-        case execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::USMALLINT:
-        {
-            if (fOp == OP_ISNULL)
-            {
-                lop->getUintVal(row, isNull);
-                bool ret = isNull;
-                isNull = false;
-                return ret;
-            }
-
-            if (fOp == OP_ISNOTNULL)
-            {
-                lop->getUintVal(row, isNull);
-                bool ret = isNull;
-                isNull = false;
-                return !ret;
-            }
-
-            if (isNull)
-                return false;
-
-            uint64_t val1 = lop->getUintVal(row, isNull);
-
-            if (isNull)
-                return false;
-
-            return numericCompare(val1,  rop->getUintVal(row, isNull)) && !isNull;
-        }
-
-        case execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::FLOAT:
-        case execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::UFLOAT:
-        case execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::DOUBLE:
-        case execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::UDOUBLE:
-        {
-            if (fOp == OP_ISNULL)
-            {
-                lop->getDoubleVal(row, isNull);
-                bool ret = isNull;
-                isNull = false;
-                return ret;
-            }
-
-            if (fOp == OP_ISNOTNULL)
-            {
-                lop->getDoubleVal(row, isNull);
-                bool ret = isNull;
-                isNull = false;
-                return !ret;
-            }
-
-            if (isNull)
-                return false;
-
-            double val1 = lop->getDoubleVal(row, isNull);
-
-            if (isNull)
-                return false;
-
-            return numericCompare(val1, rop->getDoubleVal(row, isNull)) && !isNull;
-        }
-
-        case execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::LONGDOUBLE:
-        {
-            if (fOp == OP_ISNULL)
-            {
-                lop->getLongDoubleVal(row, isNull);
-                bool ret = isNull;
-                isNull = false;
-                return ret;
-            }
-
-            if (fOp == OP_ISNOTNULL)
-            {
-                lop->getLongDoubleVal(row, isNull);
-                bool ret = isNull;
-                isNull = false;
-                return !ret;
-            }
-
-            if (isNull)
-                return false;
-
-            long double val1 = lop->getLongDoubleVal(row, isNull);
-            if (isNull)
-                return false;
-
-            long double val2 = rop->getLongDoubleVal(row, isNull);
-            if (isNull)
-                return false;
-
-            // In many case, rounding error will prevent an eq compare to work
-            // In these cases, use the largest scale of the two items.
-            if (fOp == execplan::OP_EQ)
-            {
-                // In case a val is a representation of a very large integer,
-                // we won't want to just multiply by scale, as it may move
-                // significant digits out of scope. So we break them apart
-                // and compare each separately 
-                int64_t scale = std::max(lop->resultType().scale, rop->resultType().scale);
-                if (scale)
-                {
-                    long double intpart1;
-                    long double fract1 = modfl(val1, &intpart1);
-                    long double intpart2;
-                    long double fract2 = modfl(val2, &intpart2);
-                    if (numericCompare(intpart1, intpart2))
-                    {
-                        double factor = pow(10.0, (double)scale);
-                        fract1 = roundl(fract1 * factor);
-                        fract2 = roundl(fract2 * factor);
-                        return numericCompare(fract1, fract2);
-                    }
-                    else
-                    {
-                        return false;
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-            return numericCompare(val1, val2);
-        }
-
-        case execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::DECIMAL:
-        case execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::UDECIMAL:
-        {
-            if (fOp == OP_ISNULL)
-            {
-                lop->getDecimalVal(row, isNull);
-                bool ret = isNull;
-                isNull = false;
-                return ret;
-            }
-
-            if (fOp == OP_ISNOTNULL)
-            {
-                lop->getDecimalVal(row, isNull);
-                bool ret = isNull;
-                isNull = false;
-                return !ret;
-            }
-
-            if (isNull)
-                return false;
-
-            IDB_Decimal val1 = lop->getDecimalVal(row, isNull);
-
-            if (isNull)
-                return false;
-
-            return numericCompare(val1, rop->getDecimalVal(row, isNull)) && !isNull;
-        }
-
-        case execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::DATE:
-        {
-            if (fOp == OP_ISNULL)
-            {
-                lop->getDateIntVal(row, isNull);
-                bool ret = isNull;
-                isNull = false;
-                return ret;
-            }
-
-            if (fOp == OP_ISNOTNULL)
-            {
-                lop->getDateIntVal(row, isNull);
-                bool ret = isNull;
-                isNull = false;
-                return !ret;
-            }
-
-            if (isNull)
-                return false;
-
-            int64_t val1 = lop->getDateIntVal(row, isNull);
-
-            if (isNull)
-                return false;
-
-            return numericCompare(val1, (int64_t)rop->getDateIntVal(row, isNull)) && !isNull;
-        }
-
-        case execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::DATETIME:
-        {
-            if (fOp == OP_ISNULL)
-            {
-                lop->getDatetimeIntVal(row, isNull);
-                bool ret = isNull;
-                isNull = false;
-                return ret;
-            }
-
-            if (fOp == OP_ISNOTNULL)
-            {
-                lop->getDatetimeIntVal(row, isNull);
-                bool ret = isNull;
-                isNull = false;
-                return !ret;
-            }
-
-            if (isNull)
-                return false;
-
-            int64_t val1 = lop->getDatetimeIntVal(row, isNull);
-
-            if (isNull)
-                return false;
-
-            return numericCompare(val1, rop->getDatetimeIntVal(row, isNull)) && !isNull;
-        }
-
-        case execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::TIMESTAMP:
-        {
-            if (fOp == OP_ISNULL)
-            {
-                lop->getTimestampIntVal(row, isNull);
-                bool ret = isNull;
-                isNull = false;
-                return ret;
-            }
-
-            if (fOp == OP_ISNOTNULL)
-            {
-                lop->getTimestampIntVal(row, isNull);
-                bool ret = isNull;
-                isNull = false;
-                return !ret;
-            }
-
-            if (isNull)
-                return false;
-
-            int64_t val1 = lop->getTimestampIntVal(row, isNull);
-
-            if (isNull)
-                return false;
-
-            return numericCompare(val1, rop->getTimestampIntVal(row, isNull)) && !isNull;
-        }
-
-        case execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::TIME:
-        {
-            if (fOp == OP_ISNULL)
-            {
-                lop->getTimeIntVal(row, isNull);
-                bool ret = isNull;
-                isNull = false;
-                return ret;
-            }
-
-            if (fOp == OP_ISNOTNULL)
-            {
-                lop->getTimeIntVal(row, isNull);
-                bool ret = isNull;
-                isNull = false;
-                return !ret;
-            }
-
-            if (isNull)
-                return false;
-
-            int64_t val1 = lop->getTimeIntVal(row, isNull);
-
-            if (isNull)
-                return false;
-
-            return numericCompare(val1, rop->getTimeIntVal(row, isNull)) && !isNull;
-        }
-
-
-
-        case execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::VARCHAR:
-        case execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::CHAR:
-        case execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::TEXT:
-        {
-            if (fOp == OP_ISNULL)
-            {
-                lop->getStrVal(row, isNull);
-                bool ret = isNull;
-                isNull = false;
-                return ret;
-            }
-
-            if (fOp == OP_ISNOTNULL)
-            {
-                lop->getStrVal(row, isNull);
-                bool ret = isNull;
-                isNull = false;
-                return !ret;
-            }
-
-            if (isNull)
-                return false;
-
-            const std::string& val1 = lop->getStrVal(row, isNull);
-            if (isNull)
-                return false;
-
-            return strTrimCompare(val1, rop->getStrVal(row, isNull)) && !isNull;
-//            return strCompare(val1, rop->getStrVal(row, isNull)) && !isNull;
-
-        }
-
-        // MCOL-641 WIP This is an incorrect assumption.
-        case execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::VARBINARY:
-        case execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::BLOB:
-            return false;
-            break;
-
-        default:
-        {
-            std::ostringstream oss;
-            oss << "invalid predicate operation type: " << fOperationType.colDataType;
-            throw logging::InvalidOperationExcept(oss.str());
-        }
-    }
-
-    return false;
-}
-
 inline bool PredicateOperator::numericCompare(IDB_Decimal& op1, IDB_Decimal& op2)
 {
     switch (fOp)
diff --git a/utils/funcexp/func_char.cpp b/utils/funcexp/func_char.cpp
index d9904ba63..d3bec2ae9 100644
--- a/utils/funcexp/func_char.cpp
+++ b/utils/funcexp/func_char.cpp
@@ -155,12 +155,12 @@ string Func_char::getStrVal(Row& row,
 
                     if (tmpval > static_cast<int128_t>(INT64_MAX))
                         tmpval = INT64_MAX;
-
-                    if ( !getChar((int64_t)tmpval, buf) )
+                    // WIP MCOL-641
+                    /*if ( !getChar((int64_t)tmpval, buf) )
                     {
                         isNull = true;
                         return "";
-                    }
+                    }*/
                 }
                 else
                 {
@@ -172,11 +172,12 @@ string Func_char::getStrVal(Row& row,
                     if ( lefto > 4 )
                         value++;
 
-                    if ( !getChar((int64_t)value, buf) )
+                    // WIP MCOL-641
+                    /*if ( !getChar((int64_t)value, buf) )
                     {
                         isNull = true;
                         return "";
-                    }
+                    }*/
                 }
             }
             break;
diff --git a/utils/rowgroup/rowaggregation.cpp b/utils/rowgroup/rowaggregation.cpp
index dd3c79caf..f39dea607 100755
--- a/utils/rowgroup/rowaggregation.cpp
+++ b/utils/rowgroup/rowaggregation.cpp
@@ -57,7 +57,6 @@
 
 //..comment out NDEBUG to enable assertions, uncomment NDEBUG to disable
 //#define NDEBUG
-#include "funcexp/utils_utf8.h"
 #include "mcs_decimal.h"
 
 using namespace std;
diff --git a/utils/rowgroup/rowgroup.cpp b/utils/rowgroup/rowgroup.cpp
index e8dc38f50..7a8ec8a28 100644
--- a/utils/rowgroup/rowgroup.cpp
+++ b/utils/rowgroup/rowgroup.cpp
@@ -1175,10 +1175,11 @@ bool Row::equals(const Row& r2, const std::vector<uint32_t>& keyCols) const
     for (uint32_t i = 0; i < keyCols.size(); i++)
     {
         const uint32_t& col = keyCols[i];
+        cscDataType columnType = getColType(col);
 
-        if (UNLIKELY(getColType(col) == execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::VARCHAR ||
-                     (getColType(col) == execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::CHAR  && (colWidths[col] > 1)) ||
-                     getColType(col) == execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::TEXT))
+        if (UNLIKELY(columnType == execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::VARCHAR ||
+                     (columnType == execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::CHAR  && (colWidths[col] > 1)) ||
+                      columnType == execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::TEXT))
         {
             CHARSET_INFO* cs = getCharset(col);
             if (cs->strnncollsp(getStringPointer(col), getStringLength(col), 
@@ -1187,7 +1188,7 @@ bool Row::equals(const Row& r2, const std::vector<uint32_t>& keyCols) const
                 return false;
             }
         }
-        else if (UNLIKELY(getColType(col) == execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::BLOB))
+        else if (UNLIKELY(columnType == execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::BLOB))
         {
             if (getStringLength(col) != r2.getStringLength(col))
                 return false;
@@ -1197,19 +1198,25 @@ bool Row::equals(const Row& r2, const std::vector<uint32_t>& keyCols) const
         }
         else
         {
-            if (getColType(col) == execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::LONGDOUBLE)
+            if (UNLIKELY(columnType == execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::LONGDOUBLE))
             {
                 if (getLongDoubleField(col) != r2.getLongDoubleField(col))
                     return false;
             }
+            else if (UNLIKELY(execplan::isDecimal(columnType)))
+            {
+                if (getBinaryField<int128_t>(col) != r2.getBinaryField<int128_t>(col))
+                    return false;
+            }
             else if (getUintField(col) != r2.getUintField(col))
+            {
                 return false;
+            }
         }
     }
 
     return true;
 }
-
 bool Row::equals(const Row& r2, uint32_t lastCol) const
 {
     // This check fires with empty r2 only.
@@ -1227,9 +1234,10 @@ bool Row::equals(const Row& r2, uint32_t lastCol) const
     // because binary equality is not equality for many charsets/collations
     for (uint32_t col = 0; col <= lastCol; col++)
     {
-        if (UNLIKELY(getColType(col) == execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::VARCHAR ||
-                     (getColType(col) == execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::CHAR  && (colWidths[col] > 1)) ||
-                     getColType(col) == execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::TEXT))
+        cscDataType columnType = getColType(col);
+        if (UNLIKELY(columnType == execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::VARCHAR ||
+                     (columnType == execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::CHAR  && (colWidths[col] > 1)) ||
+                     columnType == execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::TEXT))
         {
             CHARSET_INFO* cs = getCharset(col);
             if (cs->strnncollsp(getStringPointer(col), getStringLength(col), 
@@ -1238,7 +1246,7 @@ bool Row::equals(const Row& r2, uint32_t lastCol) const
                 return false;
             }
         }
-        else if (UNLIKELY(getColType(col) == execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::BLOB))
+        else if (UNLIKELY(columnType == execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::BLOB))
         {
             if (getStringLength(col) != r2.getStringLength(col))
                 return false;
@@ -1248,13 +1256,20 @@ bool Row::equals(const Row& r2, uint32_t lastCol) const
         }
         else
         {
-            if (getColType(col) == execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::LONGDOUBLE)
+            if (UNLIKELY(columnType == execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::LONGDOUBLE))
             {
                 if (getLongDoubleField(col) != r2.getLongDoubleField(col))
                     return false;
             }
+            else if (UNLIKELY(execplan::isDecimal(columnType)))
+            {
+                if (getBinaryField<int128_t>(col) != r2.getBinaryField<int128_t>(col))
+                    return false;
+            }
             else if (getUintField(col) != r2.getUintField(col))
+            {
                 return false;
+            }
         }
     }        
     return true;
diff --git a/utils/rowgroup/rowgroup.h b/utils/rowgroup/rowgroup.h
index a8f84fbc8..22d47e16e 100644
--- a/utils/rowgroup/rowgroup.h
+++ b/utils/rowgroup/rowgroup.h
@@ -1301,85 +1301,6 @@ inline uint64_t Row::hash(uint32_t lastCol) const
     return ret;
 }
 
-inline bool Row::equals(const Row& r2, const std::vector<uint32_t>& keyCols) const
-{
-    for (uint32_t i = 0; i < keyCols.size(); i++)
-    {
-        const uint32_t& col = keyCols[i];
-
-        cscDataType columnType = getColType(i);
-
-        if (!isLongString(col))
-        {
-            if (UNLIKELY(columnType == execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::LONGDOUBLE))
-            {
-                if (getLongDoubleField(i) != r2.getLongDoubleField(i))
-                    return false;
-            }
-            else if (UNLIKELY(execplan::isDecimal(columnType)))
-            {
-                if (getBinaryField<int128_t>(i) != r2.getBinaryField<int128_t>(i))
-                    return false;
-            }
-            else if (getUintField(col) != r2.getUintField(col))
-                return false;
-        }
-        else
-        {
-            if (getStringLength(col) != r2.getStringLength(col))
-                return false;
-
-            if (memcmp(getStringPointer(col), r2.getStringPointer(col), getStringLength(col)))
-                return false;
-        }
-    }
-
-    return true;
-}
-
-inline bool Row::equals(const Row& r2, uint32_t lastCol) const
-{
-    // This check fires with empty r2 only.
-    if (lastCol >= columnCount)
-        return true;
-
-    if (!useStringTable && !r2.useStringTable)
-        return !(memcmp(&data[offsets[0]], &r2.data[offsets[0]], offsets[lastCol + 1] - offsets[0]));
-
-    for (uint32_t i = 0; i <= lastCol; i++)
-    {
-        cscDataType columnType = getColType(i);
-        if (!isLongString(i))
-        {
-            if (UNLIKELY(getColType(i) == execplan::CalpontSystemCatalog::LONGDOUBLE))
-            {
-                if (getLongDoubleField(i) != r2.getLongDoubleField(i))
-                    return false;
-            }
-            else if (UNLIKELY(execplan::isDecimal(columnType)))
-            {
-                if (*getBinaryField<int128_t>(i) != *r2.getBinaryField<int128_t>(i))
-                    return false;
-            }
-
-            else if (getUintField(i) != r2.getUintField(i))
-                return false;
-        }
-        else
-        {
-            uint32_t len = getStringLength(i);
-
-            if (len != r2.getStringLength(i))
-                return false;
-
-            if (memcmp(getStringPointer(i), r2.getStringPointer(i), len))
-                return false;
-        }
-    }
-
-    return true;
-}
-
 inline bool Row::equals(const Row& r2) const
 {
     return equals(r2, columnCount - 1);