Reuse mysql Subquery in InnerJoin

Question

I'm trying optimizing a query, trying to avoid repeating the query indicated with "COMPLEX QUERY", that is used 2 times and both, has the same results.

The original query

SELECT news.* 
FROM   news 
   INNER JOIN((SELECT myposter 
               FROM   (SELECT **COMPLEX QUERY**)) 
              UNION 
              (SELECT myposter 
               FROM   `profiles_old` prof2 
               WHERE  prof2.profile_id NOT IN (SELECT **COMPLEX QUERY**))) r 
           ON news.profile = r.p 

I was wondering if something like this was possible:

SELECT news.* 
FROM   (SELECT **COMPLEX QUERY**) complexQuery, 
   news 
   INNER JOIN ((SELECT myposter 
                FROM   complexquery) 
               UNION 
               (SELECT myposter 
                FROM   `profiles_old` prof2 
                WHERE  prof2. profile NOT IN (SELECT myposter 
                                              FROM complexQuery))) r 
           ON news. profile = r.p 

Does Mysql do some sort of caching of that type of query?

Answer 1

The direct answer to your question is "no". MySQL does not support what you want. What you really want is the with statement. Great statement! If you want it, use a different database. Alas.

I do think you can do this, although the approach is quite different from what you are doing.

The logic is to take all values of myposter from the complex query and to take all values of myposter from profiles_old where the corresponding profile_id is not in the complex query.

You can do this with union all and aggregation. Just focusing on the inner subquery:

select (case when max(which = 'cq') = 1 then myposter
             when max(which = 'po') = 1 and max(which = 'cq') = 0 then id2
       ) as myposter
from (select myposter, myposter as id2, 'cq' as which
      from (select **complex query**) cq
      union all
      select profile_id, myposter, 'po' as which
      from profiles_old
     ) t
group by myposter;

The rest is just incorporating this into your overall query.

Answer 2

Come back here in 2024 and since last response with clause appeared in MySQL. According to documentation You can use it like this:

WITH
  cte1 AS (SELECT a, b FROM table1),
  cte2 AS (SELECT c, d FROM table2)
SELECT b, d FROM cte1 JOIN cte2
WHERE cte1.a = cte2.c;