BUG #17862: Overall query cost ignores window function

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Subject: BUG #17862: Overall query cost ignores window function
Date: 2023-03-22 17:42:03
Message-ID: 17862-1ab8f74b0f7b0611@postgresql.org
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The following bug has been logged on the website:

Bug reference: 17862
Logged by: Tim Palmer
Email address: tim3sp(at)gmail(dot)com
PostgreSQL version: 15.2
Operating system: Debian
Description:

This query needs to read all of large_table to count the number of rows,
despite the LIMIT clause:

SELECT large_table.*, count(*) OVER ()
FROM generate_series(1, 1000000000000) large_table
LIMIT 10

I would have expected a query plan something like this, with a large overall
cost:

Limit (cost=0.00..22500000000.00 rows=10 width=16)
-> WindowAgg (cost=0.00..22500000000.00 rows=1000000000000 width=16)
-> Function Scan on generate_series large_table
(cost=0.00..10000000000.00 rows=1000000000000 width=8)

But I actually get this query plan, with a cost of 0.23:

Limit (cost=0.00..0.23 rows=10 width=16)
-> WindowAgg (cost=0.00..22500000000.00 rows=1000000000000 width=16)
-> Function Scan on generate_series large_table
(cost=0.00..10000000000.00 rows=1000000000000 width=8)

I believe this (on a more complicated query) is affecting the plan chosen by
the optimizer.

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