The following bug has been logged online:
Bug reference: 5255
Logged by: Matteo Beccati
Email address: php@beccati.com
PostgreSQL version: 8.5alpha3
Operating system: NetBSD 5.0.1
Description: COUNT(*) returns wrong result with LEFT JOIN
Details:
Discovered this while fixing the php test suite to deal with 8.5 changes.
With the following data set a SELECT * query returns 1 rows, while SELECT
COUNT(*) returns 2.
CREATE TABLE a (id int PRIMARY KEY);
CREATE TABLE b (id int PRIMARY KEY, a_id int);
INSERT INTO a VALUES (0), (1);
INSERT INTO b VALUES (0, 0), (1, NULL);
test=# SELECT * FROM b LEFT JOIN a ON (b.a_id = a.id) WHERE (a.id IS NULL OR
a.id > 0);
id | a_id | id
----+------+----
1 | |
(1 row)
test=# SELECT COUNT(*) FROM b LEFT JOIN a ON (b.a_id = a.id) WHERE (a.id IS
NULL OR a.id > 0);
count
-------
2
(1 row)
