Bug 4906 -- Left join of subselect incorrect

From: Mathieu Fenniak <mathieu(at)fenniak(dot)net>
To: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Bug 4906 -- Left join of subselect incorrect
Date: 2009-07-20 19:47:03
Message-ID: 530A4611-C6B9-4E1D-9C72-7B86E8E6F362@fenniak.net
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Hi all,

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. The issue does not
occur in PostgreSQL 8.3.6.

My apologies for the large test setup; I attempted build up the same
test case, but was unable to reproduce the issue. I had to tear down
my database as much as I could while maintaining the issue.

Query A:
select *
FROM expense ex
JOIN expenseentry ee ON ex.id = ee.expenseid
LEFT JOIN (
SELECT projectclient.projectid, projectclient.clientid,
projectclient.billingpercentage
FROM projectclient
WHERE projectclient.projectid IN (
SELECT project.id
FROM project
WHERE project.clientbillingallocationmethod <> 2)
) pc ON ee.projectid = pc.projectid

Query B:
select *
FROM expense ex
JOIN expenseentry ee ON ex.id = ee.expenseid
LEFT JOIN (
SELECT projectclient.projectid, projectclient.clientid,
projectclient.billingpercentage
FROM projectclient
INNER JOIN project ON (projectclient.projectid = project.id)
WHERE project.clientbillingallocationmethod <> 2
) pc ON ee.projectid = pc.projectid

Attachment Content-Type Size
setup.sql.gz application/x-gzip 4.2 KB

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