[NOVICE] Re: Queries with Joins before filtering taking too much time! Filter(where clause) *first* -- suggestions ?

As a followup:

I noticed that there isn't any "pid" column in the reward table. So that
was an error and maybe that's why a sequential scan was being forced. To
recap, the query was:

SELECT
  *
FROM
property p
LEFT OUTER JOIN users ON (p.current_owner = users.uid)
WHERE
p.pid in
(SELECT pid FROM reward WHERE reward_type = 'daily'
ORDER BY reward_date DESC LIMIT 30)

But weirdly, the query still runs without any errors. Why ?

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I tried this (a simpler version of the above):

SELECT * from property
WHERE pid in (
   SELECT pid FROM reward WHERE reward_type = 'DAILYPROMO_WIN')
;

And this also runs (again taking a long time) but without any errors.
How can this be ? (there is no pid in the reward table, so why does the
subquery not throw an error)? In fact, because there was no error, I
didn't notice my typo (no pid in reward table) until right now...

Best,
--J