From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
To: Luca Pireddu <luca@cs.ualberta.ca>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: problem (bug?) with "in (subquery)"
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 07:34:04 -0600
Message-ID: <20050715133404.GA30210@winnie.fuhr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200507140134.21133.luca@cs.ualberta.ca>
References: <200507140134.21133.luca@cs.ualberta.ca>
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 01:34:21AM -0600, Luca Pireddu wrote:
> I have the following query that isn't behaving like I would expect:
>
> select * from strains s where s.id in (select strain_id from pathway_strains);
Any reason the subquery isn't doing "SELECT DISTINCT strain_id"?
> I would expect each strain record to appear only once. Instead I get output
> like this, where the same strain id appears many times:
>
> id | name | organism
> -------+--------------+----------
> 83 | common | 82
> 83 | common | 82
> 83 | common | 82
What happens when you try each of the following? Do they give the
expected results? I did some tests and I'm wondering if the planner's
hash join is responsible for the duplicate rows.
SELECT * FROM strains WHERE id IN (
SELECT strain_id FROM pathway_strains ORDER BY strain_id
);
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE foo AS SELECT strain_id FROM pathway_strains;
SELECT * FROM strains WHERE id IN (SELECT strain_id FROM foo);
SET enable_hashjoin TO off;
SELECT * FROM strains WHERE id IN (SELECT strain_id FROM pathway_strains);
--
Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/
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