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From: Henry B. Hotz <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Stefan Weiss <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: INNER JOINS in sql-select.html
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 15:08:05 -0800
Message-ID: <p05210602bbcc8fb0d68c@[137.78.212.225]> (raw)
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At 5:56 PM -0500 10/30/03, Tom Lane wrote:
>Stefan Weiss <[email protected]> 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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