Window functions seem to inhibit push-down of quals into views

Started by Alvaro Herreraover 15 years ago2 messageshackers
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#1Alvaro Herrera
alvherre@2ndquadrant.com

Hi,

I've got a table and view defined like this:

CREATE TABLE foo AS SELECT a, a % 10 AS b FROM generate_series(1, 100000) a;
CREATE INDEX a_b ON foo (b);
CREATE VIEW bar AS SELECT a, b, lead(a, 1) OVER () FROM foo;

Now, if I query the table directly instead of going through the view, a
WHERE condition can be pushed down to the table scan:

explain select a, b, lead(a, 1) over () from foo where b = 2;
QUERY PLAN
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
WindowAgg (cost=12.14..488.72 rows=500 width=8)
-> Bitmap Heap Scan on foo (cost=12.14..482.47 rows=500 width=8)
Recheck Cond: (b = 2)
-> Bitmap Index Scan on a_b (cost=0.00..12.01 rows=500 width=0)
Index Cond: (b = 2)
(5 filas)

However, if I instead query the view, the qual is applied to a SubqueryScan
instead, and the table is scanned with no qual at all:

alvherre=# explain select * from bar where b = 2;
QUERY PLAN
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Subquery Scan bar (cost=0.00..3943.00 rows=500 width=12)
Filter: (bar.b = 2)
-> WindowAgg (cost=0.00..2693.00 rows=100000 width=8)
-> Seq Scan on foo (cost=0.00..1443.00 rows=100000 width=8)
(4 filas)

The view is behaving like this:

alvherre=# explain select * from (select a, b, lead(a, 1) over () from foo) b where b = 2;
QUERY PLAN
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Subquery Scan b (cost=0.00..3943.00 rows=500 width=12)
Filter: (b.b = 2)
-> WindowAgg (cost=0.00..2693.00 rows=100000 width=8)
-> Seq Scan on foo (cost=0.00..1443.00 rows=100000 width=8)
(4 filas)

This is a killer for useful views on top of queries with window
functions :-(

Is this a optimizer shortcoming?

--
Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Alvaro Herrera (#1)
Re: Window functions seem to inhibit push-down of quals into views

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:

CREATE TABLE foo AS SELECT a, a % 10 AS b FROM generate_series(1, 100000) a;
CREATE INDEX a_b ON foo (b);
CREATE VIEW bar AS SELECT a, b, lead(a, 1) OVER () FROM foo;

explain select a, b, lead(a, 1) over () from foo where b = 2;
explain select * from bar where b = 2;

Those are not equivalent queries. In the first case b=2 is supposed to be
applied before window function evaluation, in the second case not.

regards, tom lane