Re: Subselects - recursion problem

On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 07:33:04PM +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> People,
>
> The following script works (I have confirmed it by doing two separate
> views and doing a select on them) - but I don't understand why there
> isn't a recursion problem with c1.policy and c2.policy - is there some
> sort of trick happening?

"recursion problem" ? It's called a correlated subquery. SQL is
declarative, you state what you want and the database figures out how
to get the answer for you. I think you need to go and read up on the
basics of SQL.

If you want to see *how* the database is working out the answer, use
explain and it'll display the query plan.

Hope this helps,

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