On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Right. Yeah, I was not that excited about its usefulness either.
> However, the OP seems to think that it's a common optimization
> (I wonder if he can cite chapter and verse on which other DBMSes
> do it).
>
I make no claim about its commonness, but I think this type of optimization
is very useful when selecting a limited subset of the columns from a
complex view, particularly where the output rows are expected to be
distinct on the exact set of columns that are selected.
Moshe Jacobson
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