Re: [GENERAL] question (or feature-request): over ( partition by ... order by LIMIT N) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 06:31:59PM +0100, A. Kretschmer wrote:
> Hello @all,
> 
> I know, i can do:
> 
> select * from (select ... row_number() over (...) ...) foo where
> row_number < N
> 
> to limit the rows per group, but the inner select has to retrieve
> the whole set of records and in the outer select most of them
> discarded.

That sounds like the optimizer's falling down on the job.  Would this
be difficult to fix?

Cheers,
David.
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