Re: [SQL] outer joins strangeness

2001-09-24 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Alex Pilosov wrote: > On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Stephan Szabo wrote: > > > On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Alex Pilosov wrote: > > > > Postgres treats join syntax as an explicit definition of what order to > > joins in. So, I'd guess it sees the first as: do the LOJ and then join > > that

Re: [SQL] outer joins strangeness

2001-09-23 Thread Alex Pilosov
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Stephan Szabo wrote: > On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Alex Pilosov wrote: > > > It may be just me, or I am grossly misunderstanding syntax of outer joins, > > but I see that plans for my queries are different depending on how I place > > join conditions and sometimes even on order of

Re: [SQL] outer joins strangeness

2001-09-23 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Alex Pilosov wrote: > It may be just me, or I am grossly misunderstanding syntax of outer joins, > but I see that plans for my queries are different depending on how I place > join conditions and sometimes even on order of the tables. > > Example: > 1: > explain select * fro