On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 22:54 -0600, Ben Chobot wrote: > On Sep 29, 2011, at 4:57 PM, Jason Long wrote: > > > > > I thought I had read somewhere that Postges could ignore a join if > > it > > was not necessary because there were no columns from the table or > > view > > selected in the query. Is this possible? > > > > This sounds like incorrect logic to me, so I would be surprised if it > was possible.
That is the way it is looking. I just modified my application to generate the join manually.