Your example and ones like :
SELECT max(foo), count(foo) FROM bar SELECT max(a.foo1), max(b.foo2) FROM bar1 AS a NATURAL JOIN bar2 AS b
have made me realize that the scope of "what should be optimized" is somewhat subtle.
I am inclined to keep it simple (i.e rather limited) for a first cut, and if that works well, then look at extending to more complex rewrites.
What do you think?
Jim C. Nasby wrote:
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 11:48:49AM +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
I am looking at implementing this TODO item. e.g. (max case):
rewrite
SELECT max(foo) FROM bar
as
SELECT foo FROM bar ORDER BY foo DESC LIMIT 1
if there is an index on bar(foo)
Out of curiosity, will you be doing this in such a way that
SELECT min(foo), max(foo) FROM bar
will end up as
SELECT (SELECT foo FROM bar ORDER BY foo ASC LIMIT 1), (SELECT ... DESC LIMIT 1)
?
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