Re: why does this select hang postgres???

> On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Bruce Momjian 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.
> >
> > You didn't join the tables. This will join each row to every other row.
> > This will take a long time.
>
> Any tips on this syntax? I'll go look at joins right now I guess :-)

See chapter on joins:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/awbook.html

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