From: | Harco de Hilster <Harco(dot)de(dot)Hilster(at)ATConsultancy(dot)nl> |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: ERROR: FULL JOIN is only supported with merge-joinable |
Date: | 2006-03-13 16:39:50 |
Message-ID: | 4415A056.2020203@ATConsultancy.nl |
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Thanks for your thoughts.
What is the definition of a merge-joinable condition?
Even if I put ExpTime = Infinity (I saw that one coming ;-)), the same
error is reported. My only option here is to add A.exptime = B.exptime
(which is only true for live data if I use INFINITY), and lose the
ability to query historical data.
Can I create an type/operator that compares both records that is
considered merge-joinable?
Kind regards,
Harco
Tom Lane wrote:
>Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
>
>
>>I think the reason it hasn't been done for general join conditions is
>>because we havn't thought of an efficient algorithm.
>>
>>
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>Right, it's keeping track of the unmatched right-hand rows that's a
>problem.
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>
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>>However, I wonder if youre case couldn't be handled with a
>>time-interval datatype such that you condition is merge-joinable on
>>that type. I can't quite see it though...
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>Interesting thought. The use of NULLs in this example is a pretty poor
>representational choice --- the queries would get a lot simpler if you
>used "exptime = INFINITY" to represent unexpired data. That doesn't get
>you all the way to a mergejoinable query though :-(
>
>
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