Re: Everlasting SQL query

From: Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)myrealbox(dot)com>
To: "Joost Kraaijeveld" <J(dot)Kraaijeveld(at)Askesis(dot)nl>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Everlasting SQL query
Date: 2004-07-28 10:58:27
Message-ID: 0DA5D0F4-E085-11D8-AA48-000A95C88220@myrealbox.com
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On Jul 28, 2004, at 7:08 PM, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:
> select customer.id, customer.name, orders.id
> from customers, orders
> order by customer.id, orders.id
> limit 25
>
> The query runs forever (the longest I let it run is 500 seconds).

You have no join condition, so it's doing a full cartesian join (17518
x 88393 = 1,548,468,574 rows before the limit). Try this:

select customer.id, customer.name, orders.id
from customers c, orders o
where c.id = o.customerid
order by customer.id, orders.id
limit 25

Michael Glaesemann
grzm myrealbox com

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