Re: RIGHT JOIN is only supported with mergejoinable join conditions

Tom, Josh:

Thanks for the ideas! Tom's idea was the easiest to test, so I tried it
first, and it worked! As you surmised, there was a typo, so I removed the
extra "sub".

I agree that this still may be a bug. These tables have been migrated
forward from an older postgresql version & hence have no primary or foreign
key constraints that might tip off the planner about my typo - as far as the
database knows, these are just two varchar fields in separate tables. Your
thought about the overlap causing the problem seems likely since this seems
to be a valid query, even with the typo.

At any rate, my immediate problem is solved & I'm a happy camper!

Thanks.

-Nick

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-sql-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-sql-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Tom Lane
> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 2:06 PM
> To: nickf@ontko.com
> Cc: PGSQL-SQL
> Subject: Re: [SQL] RIGHT JOIN is only supported with mergejoinable join
> conditions
>
>
> "Nick Fankhauser" <nickf@ontko.com> writes:
> >        and
> >        (
> >          local_case_type.local_case_subtype_code =
> >          case_data.local_case_type_code
> >        )
>
> Did you actually mean to match local_case_subtype_code against
> local_case_type_code, or is that a typo?
>
> I believe you have uncovered a planner bug, but the bug may be triggered
> by the partial overlap of this join condition with the next one.
> Assuming that it's a typo, you may find that you avoid the problem by
> fixing the typo.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
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