johno wrote
> Thanks for the quick reply David!
>
> However I am still unsure how these two queries are not relationally
> equivalent. I am struggling to find a counterexample where the first and
> third query (in email, not in gist) would yield different results. Any
> ideas?
Remove the outer LIMIT 100 from both queries...
The first query would return a maximal number of rows that meet the OR
criteria while the second query would return at most 200 rows since both
sub-queries would still have their own independent LIMIT 100 clauses.
David J.
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