From: David Fetter on
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 06:31:59PM +0100, A. Kretschmer wrote:
> Hello @all,
>
> I know, i can do:
>
> select * from (select ... row_number() over (...) ...) foo where
> row_number < N
>
> to limit the rows per group, but the inner select has to retrieve
> the whole set of records and in the outer select most of them
> discarded.

That sounds like the optimizer's falling down on the job. Would this
be difficult to fix?

Cheers,
David.
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