On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 15:22 +0000, Gregory Stark wrote:
> "Simon Riggs" <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>
> > I've just read a paper that says PostgreSQL doesn't do this. My reading
> > of the code is that we *do* evaluate the HAVING clause prior to
> > calculating the aggregates for it. I thought I'd check to resolve the
> > confusion.
> >

> You mean in cases like this?
>
> postgres=# explain select count(*) from customer group by c_w_id,c_d_id,c_id having c_w_id = 1 and c_d_id=1 and c_id=1;
> QUERY PLAN
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> GroupAggregate (cost=0.00..13.61 rows=1 width=12)
> -> Index Scan using pk_customer on customer (cost=0.00..13.56 rows=4 width=12)
> Index Cond: ((c_w_id = 1) AND (c_d_id = 1) AND (c_id = 1))
> (3 rows)

OK, thanks. I'll feedback to the author of the paper I was reviewing.

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Simon Riggs
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com



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