Re: BUG #2503: Query results differ based on record count

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Russell Francis wrote:
>
>> If a SELECT statement contains a table in it's FROM clause which has 0
>> records in it, the query will not return any results. If a record is added
>> to the table even though it shouldn't modify the results of query, the query
>> will return the expected result.
>>
>> The SQL statements below are a trimmed down test case which duplicates this
>> issue. The identical SELECT statements return different results depending
>> on the record count of the unrelated table_b.
>>
>> SELECT table_a.* FROM table_a, table_b WHERE table_a.ta_col_a > 0;
>
> table_b is certainly not unrelated, as it appears in the FROM clause.
> So the query is correct to not show any result, per definition of
> cartesian product.
>

Alvaro,

Yes, you are correct. Sorry.

Thanks,
Russ