"Ottó Havasvölgyi" <havasvolgyi.otto@gmail.com> writes:
> When using views built with left joins, and then querying against these
> views, there are a lot of join in the plan that are not necessary, because I
> don't select/use any column of each table in the views every time. Tables
> that are left joined and never referenced anywhere else in the query should
> be removed from the plan.
That might cause you to get the wrong number of copies of some rows ---
what if a row of the left table should join to multiple rows on the right?
regards, tom lane
