Re: Optimizing maximum/minimum queries (yet again)

Looks great! I had been slowly thinking along similar lines via the 
equivalence:

SELECT min(x) FROM tab WHERE...

SELECT min(x) FROM (SELECT x FROM tab WHERE ... ORDER BY x LIMIT 1) AS t


However, it looks like your approach is more flexible than this :-)

best wishes

Mark


Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> I realized today that this may not be as hard as I thought.
> Specifically, I'm imagining that we could convert
> 
>     SELECT min(x), max(y) FROM tab WHERE ...
> 
> into sub-selects in a one-row outer query:
> 
>     SELECT (SELECT x FROM tab WHERE ... ORDER BY x LIMIT 1),
>            (SELECT y FROM tab WHERE ... ORDER BY y DESC LIMIT 1);
> 
> Breaking it down like that means we can consider each aggregate
> independently, which definitely simplifies matters.