bug in JOIN or COUNT or ... ?

Sorry, worst Subject I've ever come up with, but this is one of those "I
haven't got a clue how to describe" emails ...

Simple query:

SELECT distinct s.gid, s.created, i.title
FROM status s LEFT JOIN images i ON (s.gid = i.gid AND i.active), personal_data pd, relationship_wanted rw
WHERE s.active AND s.status != 0
AND s.gid = 17111
AND (s.gid = pd.gid AND pd.gender = 0)
AND (s.gid = rw.gid AND rw.gender = 0 );

Produces:

gid | created | title
-------+------------------------+--------
17111 | 2000-10-19 15:20:46-04 | image1
17111 | 2000-10-19 15:20:46-04 | image2
17111 | 2000-10-19 15:20:46-04 | image3
(3 rows)

Great, what I expect ...

But:

SELECT distinct s.gid, s.created, count(i.title) AS images
FROM status s LEFT JOIN images i ON (s.gid = i.gid AND i.active), personal_data pd, relationship_wanted rw
WHERE s.active AND s.status != 0
AND s.gid = 17111
AND (s.gid = pd.gid AND pd.gender = 0)
AND (s.gid = rw.gid AND rw.gender = 0 )
GROUP BY s.gid, s.created;

Produces:

/tmp/psql.edit.70.62491: 7 lines, 353 characters.
gid | created | images
-------+------------------------+--------
17111 | 2000-10-19 15:20:46-04 | 15
(1 row)

So why is it counting 12 more images then are actually found/exist:

testdb=# select title from images where gid = 17111;
title
--------
image1
image3
image2
(3 rows)

Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
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