The actual query that prompted this question, though, has a subquery
that uses aggregates and a GROUP BY--i.e. the subquery *cannot*, as
I understand it, be flattened into the outer query, because the
aggregate/group-by functionality has to be performed before
evaluation of the outer query can occur. Ex.
select t1.i, x1.s1 from t1 inner join (select distinct j, sum(b) s1
from t2 group by j) x1 on x1.j = t1.i;
OK, I see. There are ways to flatten some types of aggregate
subqueries, but they are complicated and I wouldn't want to get into
it. I agree that in this case it would be worth investigating a hash
join with the subquery.
Unfortunately, I don't remember why hash joins are prohibited in this
case. One thing I notice in looking at the code is the following in
HashJoinStrategy.feasible():
The only thing I can suggest is to try removing the restriction and
see what happens. I'll try to help if you run into problems.
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