Oops, should have read properly. Do it as:
SELECT m.*
FROM table1 m,
table4 l,
table2 ms
LEFT JOIN
table3 s ON ...
So doing m.* works to select the columns returned does it? I'm sure last time I
tried it it didn't.
I wrote:
Just move table3 s to be last table specified before the left join phrase.
--
Nigel J. Andrews
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Björn Metzdorf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This version should theoretically do what I want, but it does not work (it
> gives "ERROR: Relation "s" does not exist"):
>
> ------ snip -------
> SELECT m.*
> FROM table1 m,
> table2 ms,
> table3 s,
> table4 l
> LEFT JOIN table5 c ON s.id = ms.slot
> WHERE m.id = 262451
> AND ms.value2 = m.id
> AND l.id = m.value
> AND c.id = s.contestant
> ORDER BY m.date ASC
> ------ snap -------
>
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Regards,
> Bjoern
