The following bug has been logged on the website: Bug reference: 6723 Logged by: Heiko Helmbrecht Email address: heiko.helmbre...@xclinical.com PostgreSQL version: 8.4.12 Operating system: Linux Description:
The optimizer is using a where condition for a full table, not to the results of a join/subselect result, that's why it is tried to use casts, that cannot work on the whole table, here are the easy steps to reproduce the problems: create table myTable(id integer, is_current boolean, value varchar(100), ref integer); create table myJoinTable(id integer, name varchar(10)); insert into myTable(id, is_current, value, ref) values (1,true,'2012-01-15',1), (2,true,'no date',2), (3,false,'2012-01-07',3), (4,false,'2012-01-07',1), (5,false,'2012-01-07',1), (6,false,'2012-01-07',1), (7,false,'2012-01-07',1), (8,false,'2012-01-07',3), (9,true,'2012-01-07',3); insert into myJoinTable(id, name) values (1, 'A'), (2, 'B'), (3, 'A'); select myDate from (select CAST(t2.value AS DATE) as myDate from myJoinTable t1 join myTable t2 on t1.id = t2.ref where t2.is_current = TRUE and t1.name = 'A') myTmpTable WHERE myDate > '2012-01-01'; -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs