On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 00:36:29 -0500,
"Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 01:28:26AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > "Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net> writes:
> > > Any chance of getting a TODO added that would provide the option of
> > > having the optimizer pick join order when you're using the ANSI join
> > > syntax?
> >
> > No ... because it's already DONE.
>
> DOH, I forgot about the subselect trick. Nevermind.
In 7.4 there is a GUC setting to control this. I believe the default
is to not constrain the join order any more than is necessary to
preserve semantics.