Tobias Hoffmann <ldev-list@thax.hardliners.org> writes:
> A more complete example might look more like this:
> CREATE VIEW "subview1" AS
> SELECT tbl1.site_id, ... JOIN ... ON tbl1.site_id = tbl2.site_id
> WHERE ...;
> CREATE VIEW "view1" AS
> SELECT site_id, ... FROM subview1 -- maybe even: WHERE site_id IS
> NOT NULL
> UNION ALL
> SELECT null, ...;
> SELECT * FROM view1 WHERE (site_id = 1 OR site_id IS NULL);
For this particular case, you could probably get somewhere by
writing
SELECT * FROM view1 WHERE site_id = 1
UNION ALL
SELECT * FROM view1 WHERE site_id IS NULL;
since the sets of rows satisfying those two WHERE conditions
must be disjoint. (I recall working on a patch that essentially
tried to do that transformation automatically, but it eventually
failed because things get too messy if the row sets might not
be disjoint.)
regards, tom lane
