On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 2:50 AM, Navrotskiy Artem wrote:
> This is especially unpleasant for expressions using RANK and DENSE_RANK,
> which can not simply be rewritten using LIMIT.
>
They cannot anyway, at least not DENSE_RANK with ties.
Others will have to speak to the dynamics involved with
Hello. I found unexpected query optimization issue: window functions can't be used as LIMIT/FETCH FIRST alternative (as far as I know, before SQL:2008 it was the only standard way to implement LIMIT in the query). The problem is that PostgreSQL does not stop reading the records after reaching the l