Re: INNER JOINS in sql-select.html

At 5:56 PM -0500 10/30/03, Tom Lane wrote:
>Stefan Weiss <spaceman-4b9f8-20030703@ausgehaucht.sensenmann.at> writes:
>>  From <doc/html/sql-select.html>:
>  > | A CROSS JOIN or INNER JOIN is a simple Cartesian product, the same
>>  | as you get from listing the two items at the top level of FROM. CROSS
>>  | JOIN is equivalent to INNER JOIN ON (TRUE), that is, no rows are
>>  | removed by qualification.
>
>>  I thought that by using the second form, you would be able to do
>>  'explicit' joins, effectivly telling the planner in which order to
>>  join multiple tables (in case you have to join 10+ tables)?
>
>They are semantically equivalent, but not necessarily the same from a
>performance point of view.  The potential performance issues are covered
>elsewhere; I think it would just obfuscate matters to try to include
>that topic here.

You can imply the issue without obfuscating things.  How about:

>A CROSS JOIN or INNER JOIN is a simple Cartesian product, the same
>as you get from listing the two items at the top level of FROM.
>CROSS JOIN yields the same results as INNER JOIN ON (TRUE), that is,
>no rows are removed by qualification.

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