Re: strange sql issue

From: Andreas Seltenreich <andreas+pg(at)gate450(dot)dyndns(dot)org>
To: "Thomas Peter" <usenet(at)braindumped(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: strange sql issue
Date: 2006-10-01 11:09:05
Message-ID: 877izkfg32.fsf@gate450.dyndns.org
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Thomas Peter writes:

> the following sql stopped working with postgres, and the fix of this
> problem seems strange to me.
[...]
> and the fix was, to twist the order in the FROM statement.
> changing
> FROM ticket as t, permission as perm, enum as p
> to
> FROM permission as perm, enum as p, ticket as t
> works like expected!
>
> so is this a bug, or do i get soemthing wrong (a hint where to rtfm would
> be very welcome in this case)

If by "stopped working" you mean that the query returns an unexpected
result set, there should be a difference in the respective query plans
(explain analyze). Comparing them might give a clue what is going
wrong.

regards,
andreas

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