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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Cc: andrew <andrew.ylzhou@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: filtering after join
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:11:13 +0100
Message-ID: <200601252011.13465.peter_e@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <29d3b0b90601250927o2a5ee6e6mc33a7647da4438ce@mail.gmail.com>
References: <29d3b0b90601250927o2a5ee6e6mc33a7647da4438ce@mail.gmail.com>

andrew wrote:
> I want to use a UDF to filter tuples t that are generated after a
> join. More specifially, I have a UDF foo(record), which computes a
> value for a given tuple.  I can do the filtering before the join.
> e.g.:
>
> select * from A, B where foo(A)<2 and A.a=B.b;

What makes you think that the filtering happens before the join here?  
And why would it matter?  The results should be all the same.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/



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