On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 09:50:49PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com> writes:
> > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:04:42PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> It'd depend on the context, possibly, but it's easy to show that the
> >> current planner does fold "now() - interval_constant" when making
> >> estimates. Simple example:
>
> > Turns out the difference is between feeding a date vs a timestamp into the
> > query... I would have thought that since date is a date that the WHERE clause
> > would be casted to a date if it was a timestamptz, but I guess not...
>
> Hmm ... worksforme. Could you provide a complete test case?
I can't provide the data I used for that, but I'll try and come up with
something else.
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