Re: - Slow Query

From: Віталій Тимчишин <tivv00(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Mike Ivanov <mikei(at)activestate(dot)com>
Cc: Rui Carvalho <rui(dot)hmcarvalho(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: - Slow Query
Date: 2009-07-03 11:22:35
Message-ID: 331e40660907030422p2375a09co827457c2dc7aff4c@mail.gmail.com
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2009/7/1 Mike Ivanov <mikei(at)activestate(dot)com>

>
>
> > LEFT outer JOIN ville ON ville.uid = bien.ref_ville
> > LEFT outer JOIN freguesia_ville ON freguesia_ville.ref_ville =ville.uid
>
> This is not enough. You have to add this condition as well:
>
> AND bien.ref_ville = freguesia_ville.ref_ville
>
> In other words, when you link three tables by a common field, all three
> relationships should be explicitly expressed, otherwise you'll have this
> type of explosive row multiplication.
>

Why so? Is not changing "freguesia_ville.ref_ville =ville.uid" to
"freguesia_ville.ref_ville =bien.uid" enough (to prevent cases when
ville.uid is null as result of join)?

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