Re: Limit + group + join

On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 18:56 -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 02:27 +0200, Tobias Brox wrote:
> > Consider this setup - which is a gross simplification of parts of our
> > production system ;-)
> >
> > create table c (id integer primary key);
> > create table b (id integer primary key, c_id integer);
> > create index b_on_c on b(c_id)
> >
> > insert into c (select ... lots of IDs ...);
> > insert into b (select id, id from c); /* keep it simple :-) */
> >
> > Now, I'm just interessted in some few rows.
> >
> > All those gives good plans:
> >
> > explain select c.id from c order by c.id limit 1;
> > explain select c.id from c group by c.id order by c.id limit 1;
> > explain select c.id from c join b on c_id=c.id order by c.id limit 1;
> >
> > ... BUT ... combining join, group and limit makes havoc:
> >
> > explain select c.id from c join b on c_id=c.id group by c.id order by c.id
> > desc limit 5;
>
> Where's b in this join clause? It looks like a cartesian product to me.

Nevermind. I read c_id as c.id.

-jwb