If you wrap the LIMIT select into a subquery in the FROM the planner might figure it out...
SELECT ... FROM (SELECT blah FROM a LIMIT 10) LEFT JOIN ... Unlike some other databases that will spend huge amounts of time on trying to re-arrange queries and then hope they can effectively cache query plans, PostgreSQL prefers not to spend cycles on more esoteric cases so that query planning is fast. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly