Re: man, I feel like a beginner ... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From The Hermit Hacker
Subject Re: man, I feel like a beginner ...
Date
Msg-id Pine.BSF.4.21.0009131029300.1305-100000@thelab.hub.org
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In response to Re: man, I feel like a beginner ...  (Jan Wieck <janwieck@Yahoo.com>)
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On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Jan Wieck wrote:

> The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> >
> > someone notice anything wrong with this query? :) *slap forehead*
> >
> > explain
> >   SELECT distinct s.gid, s.created , geo_distance(pd.location, '(-90.3690233918754,38.7788148984854)')
> >     FROM status s, personal_data pd, relationship_wanted rw , personal_ethnicity pe , personal_religion pr ,
personal_bodytypepb
 
> >    WHERE s.active AND s.status != 0
> >      AND (s.gid = pd.gid AND pd.gender = 0)
> >      AND (s.gid = rw.gid AND rw.gender = 1)
> >      AND geo_distance( pd.location, '(-90.3690233918754,38.7788148984854)' ) <= 75
> > ORDER BY geo_distance( pd.location, '(-90.3690233918754,38.7788148984854)'),  s.created desc;
> 
>     What's the purpose of joining it with "pb"?

if the proper clause was in place, ooddles of purpose ... it wasn't until
after I upgraded to the newest code that Tom put the fix in for, and it
was *still* causing problems, that I clued into the fact that the AND
clause that was supposed to be associated with 'pb' *wasn't* there ...

For the whole time we were debugging this, none of us clued into it :)



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