Are not absolutelly bad but sometimes that path that you choose is not the optimal, in postgres 7.4 use the explicit join will be less limitative for the planner.
Regards Gaetano Mendola
Ah, OK. True! In this case though, the sql questions are crafted with great care, since we have a lot of data in a few of the tables, other are almost empty, so we try to limit the amount of data as early as possible. Our experience says that we often do a better job than the planner, since we know which tables are "fat". Hence, we have actually moved to exlicit joins in questions and sometimes gained speed.
But, in the general case, implicit might be better, I guess.
Regards, Palle
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