Re: ORDER BY and LIMIT not propagated on inherited

Simon Riggs wrote:
> Returning to Matteo's original query, what we are saying is that the new
> optimization for MIN/MAX queries doesn't work with inherited tables.
>
> It could do, by running optimize_minmax_aggregates() for each query that
> gets planned to see if a better plan exists for each child table.
>
> I think that's a TODO item.

Great. Of course I'm using ORDER BY ... LIMIT as a workaround to get the
index scan on pre-8.1, and because I'm used to it insted of the
previously not optimized MIN/MAX aggregates.

> Optimizing ORDER BY and LIMIT down looks like it would be harder to do
> in the general case, even if Matteo's simple transform looks good. I'm
> not sure it's a very common query type though...

If I can find some time, I'll try to write some hacks... I just need to
find out where to start ;)

Best regards
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Matteo Beccati
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