Re: limits of max, min optimization

On 2022-Jul-18, Pavel Stehule wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I am trying to fix one slow query, and found that optimization of min, max
> functions is possible only when there is no JOIN in the query.
> 
> Is it true?

See preprocess_minmax_aggregates() in
src/backend/optimizer/plan/planagg.c

> select max(insert_date) from foo join boo on foo.boo_id = boo.id
> where foo.item_id = 100 and boo.is_ok

Maybe it is possible to hack that code so that this case can be handled
better.


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