Example #1

Customers who have ordered more than 1M goods.

ANALYZE FORMAT=JSON
SELECT CONT(*)
FROM customer
WHERE
  (SELECT SUM(o_totalprice) FROM orders WHERE o_custkey=c_custkey) > 1000*1000;

The query takes 40 seconds over cold cache

EXPLAIN: {
  "query_block": {
    "select_id": 1,
    "r_loops": 1,
    "r_total_time_ms": 39872,
    "table": {
      "table_name": "customer",
      "access_type": "index",
      "key": "i_c_nationkey",
      "key_length": "5",
      "used_key_parts": ["c_nationkey"],
      "r_loops": 1,
      "rows": 150303,
      "r_rows": 150000,
      "r_total_time_ms": 270.3,
      "filtered": 100,
      "r_filtered": 60.691,
      "attached_condition": "((subquery#2) > <cache>((1000 * 1000)))",
      "using_index": true
    },
    "subqueries": [
      {
        "query_block": {
          "select_id": 2,
          "r_loops": 150000,
          "r_total_time_ms": 39531,
          "table": {
            "table_name": "orders",
            "access_type": "ref",
            "possible_keys": ["i_o_custkey"],
            "key": "i_o_custkey",
            "key_length": "5",
            "used_key_parts": ["o_custkey"],
            "ref": ["dbt3sf1.customer.c_custkey"],
            "r_loops": 150000,
            "rows": 7,
            "r_rows": 10,
            "r_total_time_ms": 39208,
            "filtered": 100,
            "r_filtered": 100
          }
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

ANALYZE shows that 39.2 seconds were spent in the subquery, which was executed 150K times (for every row of outer table).