Re: Recursive optimization of IN subqueries - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: Recursive optimization of IN subqueries
Date
Msg-id 001701c3e4df$9a4726a0$5e00030a@LaptopDellXP
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: [GENERAL] Recursive optimization of IN subqueries  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-hackers
> Tom Lane writes
> 
> In the second place, what the code is doing is dependent on an
> understanding
> of the semantics of IN; I'm not sure it's applicable to, say,
>     WHERE outervar > ANY (SELECT innervar FROM ...)
> and it's definitely not applicable to
>     WHERE outervar > ALL (SELECT innervar FROM ...)
> In particular, the optimization paths that involve unique-ifying the
> subselect output and then using it as the outer side of a join would
> definitely not work for these sorts of things.
> 

I'm not sure if I've understood you correctly in the section above. Are
you saying that these types of queries don't have a meaningful or
defined response? Or just that they wouldn't be very well optimized as a
result of the unique-ifying code changes? Or have I just mis-read the
thread...

My understanding is that in ANSI SQL99, the expression expression > ALL (subquery) 

- is TRUE when expression is greater than every value in the set
of values returned by subquery. 
- is TRUE if subquery returns no values.

The expression expression > ANY (subquery) 

- is TRUE when expression is greater than at least one value of
the set of values returned by subquery.
- is FALSE if subsquery returns no values.

(As supported by Oracle 9iv2 and Teradata v2r5.0.)

Best regards, Simon



pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Andrew Dunstan
Date:
Subject: Re: returning PGresult as xml
Next
From: "Simon Riggs"
Date:
Subject: Re: Recursive optimization of IN subqueries