Re: bad execution plan for subselects containing windowing-function

Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer(at)spamfence(dot)net> writes:
> > Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >> I see no bug here. Your second query asks for a much more complicated
> >> computation, it's not surprising it takes longer.
>
> > But sorry, I disagree. It is the same query with the same result. I can't see
> > how the queries should return different results.
>
> In the first query
>
> select id, avg(value) over (partition by value) from values where id = 50 order by id;
>
> the avg() calculations are being done over only rows with id = 50. In
> the second query
>
> select * from (select id, avg(value) over (partition by value) from values order by id) foo where id = 50;
>
> they are being done over all rows. In this particular example you
> happen to get the same result, but that's just because "avg(foo) over
> partition by foo" is a dumb example --- it will necessarily just yield
> identically foo. In more realistic computations the results would be
> different.

Okay, i believe you now ;-)

I will try to find a case with different results ...

Thx for your fast help!

Andreas
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