Re: View refuses to work after system reboot

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Jake Newren" <jake_newren@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-02-12T17:05:56Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
"Jake Newren" <jake_newren@yahoo.com> writes:
> 	PostgreSQL 7.0.3 installed in the /usr/local/pgsql directory.

> 	I created a view on my database with the following statement:
> CREATE VIEW wireticket_out AS SELECT wire_tickets.fund_cusip,
> funds.fund_desc, accounts.acct_name, wire_tickets.acct_num,
> wire_tickets.cash_actual, wire_tickets.cash_invest,
> wire_tickets.date_entered FROM wire_tickets INNER JOIN accounts ON
> wire_tickets.acct_num = accounts.acct_num INNER JOIN funds ON
> wire_tickets.fund_cusip = funds.fund_cusip

IIRC, 7.0.* has some rather nasty bugs with nested JOIN clauses, such as
you have here.  It'd be safer to express the query with a simple "FROM
wire_tickets, accounts, funds" and put the join conditions in WHERE.

			regards, tom lane