On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
>
> select * from env_info,summary,plat_info;
>
> Is my statement broken? Is this not legal? Postgres just sits there....
>
> My goal is to select everything from multiple tables with one sql
> statement.
I don't think it's doing what you want. You've asked for the
join of all three tables, ie, each row in env_info crossed
with each row of summary crossed with each row of plat_info
(so if say each table had 10^4 rows, you'd get like 10^12
rows out).