I am curious what is proper ordering for cross joining and joining at
all for two tables. I look at the example at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/queries-table-expressions.html
and there is:
SELECT * FROM t1 CROSS JOIN t2;num | name | num | value
-----+------+-----+------- 1 | a | 1 | xxx 1 | a | 3 | yyy 1 | a | 5 | zzz 2 | b | 1 | xxx 2 |
b | 3 | yyy 2 | b | 5 | zzz 3 | c | 1 | xxx 3 | c | 3 | yyy 3 | c | 5 | zzz
(9 rows)
I thought that this should be rather:
1 | a | 1 | xxx 2 | b | 1 | xxx 3 | c | 1 | xxx 1 | a | 3 | yyy 2 | b | 3 | yyy 2 | b
| 3 | yyy 1 | a | 5 | zzz 2 | b | 5 | zzz 3 | c | 5 | zzz
DROP TABLE t1, t2;
CREATE TABLE t1 (num int, char name);
CREATE TABLE t2 (num int, value varchar(3));
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (1, 'a'), (2, 'b'), (3, 'c');
INSERT INTO t2 VALUES (1, 'xxx'), (2, 'yyy'), (3, 'zzz');
SELECT * FROM t1 CROSS JOIN t2;num | char | num | value
-----+------+-----+------- 1 | a | 1 | xxx 2 | b | 1 | xxx 3 | c | 1 | xxx 1 | a | 2 | yyy 2 |
b | 2 | yyy 3 | c | 2 | yyy 1 | a | 3 | zzz 2 | b | 3 | zzz 3 | c | 3 | zzz
(9 rows)
or even (same data as in documentation):
DROP TABLE t1, t2;
CREATE TABLE t1 (num int, char name);
CREATE TABLE t2 (num int, value varchar(3));
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (1, 'a'), (2, 'b'), (3, 'c');
INSERT INTO t2 VALUES (1, 'xxx'), (3, 'yyy'), (5, 'zzz');
SELECT * FROM t1 CROSS JOIN t2;num | char | num | value
-----+------+-----+------- 1 | a | 1 | xxx 2 | b | 1 | xxx 3 | c | 1 | xxx 1 | a | 3 | yyy 2 |
b | 3 | yyy 3 | c | 3 | yyy 1 | a | 5 | zzz 2 | b | 5 | zzz 3 | c | 5 | zzz
(9 rows)
Is there any "proper", standard ordering that I can assume for sure ?
Maybe PostgreSQL 8.4/9.0 versions have strict ordering and older
versions are using mixed ordering depends on something I don't know (I
am just guessing).
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
G. Sz.
