On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 18:56 -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 02:27 +0200, Tobias Brox wrote: > > Consider this setup - which is a gross simplification of parts of our > > production system ;-) > > > > create table c (id integer primary key); > > create table b (id integer primary key, c_id integer); > > create index b_on_c on b(c_id) > > > > insert into c (select ... lots of IDs ...); > > insert into b (select id, id from c); /* keep it simple :-) */ > > > > Now, I'm just interessted in some few rows. > > > > All those gives good plans: > > > > explain select c.id from c order by c.id limit 1; > > explain select c.id from c group by c.id order by c.id limit 1; > > explain select c.id from c join b on c_id=c.id order by c.id limit 1; > > > > ... BUT ... combining join, group and limit makes havoc: > > > > explain select c.id from c join b on c_id=c.id group by c.id order by c.id > > desc limit 5; > > Where's b in this join clause? It looks like a cartesian product to me.
Nevermind. I read c_id as c.id. -jwb ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly