>>>>> "Alvaro" == Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> For instance, in the presence of a view or a subquery, does PG >> do a subquery to join transformation ? Alvaro> Yes, there are transformations of this sort, but they are Alvaro> not called query rewrite in the code's terminology, but Alvaro> "optimization" -- rewrite (rules and views) happens to the Alvaro> parsed statement, and the optimizer works on the output of Alvaro> rewriting. So actually the optimizations happen whether Alvaro> there were or not rules or views. Interesting .. so these are rule-based then ? Not cost-based ? I understand that there is a cost-based optimizer anyway that does the planning and selects the right plan .. but does this come _after_ all these transformations ? Or does it happen along with the transformations ? Alvaro> The query's path is SQL -> parse -> rewrite -> optimize -> Alvaro> execute Can you please point me to the code that indeed does such transformations ? -- Pip-pip Sailesh http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~sailesh ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster