Re: Bug 4906 -- Left join of subselect incorrect

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Mathieu Fenniak <mathieu(at)fenniak(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Bug 4906 -- Left join of subselect incorrect
Date: 2009-07-20 23:28:56
Message-ID: 29374.1248132536@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Mathieu Fenniak <mathieu(at)fenniak(dot)net> writes:
> After running the attached setup.sql.gz SQL script on a PostgreSQL
> 8.4.0 database, the following two queries which should be logically
> identical return different results. As far as I can tell from the
> query analysis, the LEFT JOIN on query A is happening after
> "ee.projectid = pc.projectid" is filtered; therefore the rows where
> projectid is NULL are not visible in query A.

Yeah, it seems to be confused about whether it can interchange the
order of the semijoin and left join. I'll take a look.

regards, tom lane

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