appreciate the instant response. > Well, arguably it's not doing the right thing either way --- you'd sort > of like the inequalities to get pushed down into both of the join > inputs, not just one of them. PG doesn't make that deduction though; > it can make such inferences for equalities, but inequalities are not > optimized as much. in my work i have replaced the query with a sql function + window : create or replace function bar(timestamp, timestamp) returns setof foo language 'sql' as $$ select ts, id, val - (avg(val) over (partition by ts)) as val from foo where ts > $1 and ts < $2 $$; i was forced to use a sql function as opposed to a view because the query planner was unable to push down restrictions on ts inside the view subquery, which i've manually done in the function. indeed, explain select ts, id, val - (avg(val) over (partition by ts)) as val from foo where ts > '2009-10-20' and ts < '2009-10-21'; and explain select * from (select ts, id, val - (avg(val) over (partition by ts)) as val from foo) as f where ts > '2009-10-20' and ts < '2009-10-21'; give different answers, despite being equivalent, but i understand it is hard to push things into subqueries in general. in this case it is only legal because we partition by ts. thanks again for the explanations! best, ben -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance