Re: full join in view

Tambet Matiisen wrote:

> I'm making a report in Crystal Reports, which makes use of full join.
> As Crystal Reports does not support full join natively, I created a
> view which contains the join and based my report on that view. The
> report has also a parameter to filter only subset of rows from view.
> My problem is, that when selecting from this view, optimizer never
> uses indexes of neither of two tables.
>
> I understand, that optimizing the filter to the bottom of query tree
> may not always give the same result with full join (although it should
> in my case). Alternative could be to use function returning a table,
> but I doubt I could use this function from Crystal Reports. What other
> options I have?
>
> Tambet

Can you add some sql examples - table & index definition, view definition?
If your view doesn't contain other views or sub-selects, postgres should
use indexes.
Tomasz Myrta