Re: BUG #2739: INTERSECT ALL not working

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Mason Hale" <masonhale(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #2739: INTERSECT ALL not working
Date: 2006-11-06 19:03:29
Message-ID: 28525.1162839809@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Mason Hale" <masonhale(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> The query below should return 10 rows,

Not by my reading of the spec. SQL92 7.10 saith:

b) If a set operator is specified, then the result of applying
the set operator is a table containing the following rows:

i) Let R be a row that is a duplicate of some row in T1 or of
some row in T2 or both. Let m be the number of duplicates
of R in T1 and let n be the number of duplicates of R in
T2, where m >= 0 and n >= 0.

...

iii) If ALL is specified, then

...

3) If INTERSECT is specified, then the number of duplicates
of R that T contains is the minimum of m and n.

You have m = 1, n = 2 for each distinct row at the INTERSECT step,
ergo you get one copy out.

regards, tom lane

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