use explicit JOINs can get around this ... check out this thread in
pgsql-sql:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-sql/2001-06/msg00318.php
I found it the other day as I had to remind myself how to do it :)
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, david blood wrote:
> I thought I read somewhere but can't find it that the execution of the where
> clause statements in up to the optimizer. Is there a way to affect that?
>
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