The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 1241 Logged by: Xiaoyu Wang
Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PostgreSQL version: 7.4.3 Operating system: Mandrake Linux 9.2 3.3.1-2mdk Description: returns different result for the same result with differnt plans. Details: database: TPC-H with scale factor=1.0 query: 13.sql (TPC-H) select c_count, count(*) as custdist from ( select c_custkey, count(o_orderkey) from customer left outer join orders on c_custkey = o_custkey and o_comment not like '%special%requests' group by c_custkey ) as c_orders (c_custkey, c_count) group by c_count order by custdist desc, c_count desc; I ran the query with enable_mergejoin set to on/off, the results are different. Postgres chose Merge Left Join when enable_mergejoin is on and Hash Left Join when it is off. I dumped the results to two files, merge.data and hash.data. Here is the result when I do a diff: diff merge.data hash.data 3d2 < 0 | 50004 41a41 > 0 | 4 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org