The following bug has been logged online:
Bug reference: 6154
Logged by: listar
Email address: lis...@mail.ru
PostgreSQL version: 8.4.5
Operating system: Linux 2.6.36-gentoo-r5
Description: wrong result with nested left-joins
Details:
It's hard to explain, but easy to show =)
here we are:
SELECT * FROM
(
SELECT 1 as key1
) sub1
LEFT JOIN
(
SELECT sub3.key3, value2 FROM
(
SELECT 1 as key3
) sub3
LEFT JOIN
(
SELECT sub5.key5, COALESCE(sub6.value1, 1) as
value2
FROM
(
SELECT 1 as key5
) sub5
LEFT JOIN
(
SELECT 1 as key6, value1
FROM
(
SELECT
NULL::integer as value1
) sub7
WHERE false
) sub6 ON false
)
sub4 ON sub4.key5=sub3.key3
)
sub2 ON sub1.key1 = sub2.key3
The result of this query:
key1;key3;value2
1;1;NULL
And this is the problem - value2 can't be NULL because of COALESCE in sub4
(at least I think that it can't be =))
Anyway if we'll change
SELECT sub3.key3, sub4.value2 FROM
with
SELECT sub3.key3, value2 FROM
we will got correct result:
key1;key3;value2
1;1;1
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