> > 寄件者: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > 日期: 2005/08/27 星期六 下午 11:25:49 HKT > 收件者: Tang Tim Hei <timheit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > 副本: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > 主旨: Re: A strange problem > > On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Tang Tim Hei wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I'm new to postgresql. Anytime I type the following command to the > > database to run, it give me no result record if table 'country' is > > empty but can get result if 'country' is not empty. Is this so > > strange? > > Not really. You're doing a cartesian join between test.currency and > test.country. If there are no rows in test.country, there are no rows in > the output of the from clause. > > > select A.* from test.currency A, test.country B where A.curr_cd='USD' > > > In the above command, I just add another table reference to it and it gives me two different results. Even I add columns like B.* to it, it do the same things too. Is it not consistance? In real world, I don't know the 'country' table is empty or not. Sometime it is empty and sometime it is not empty, this will confuse me whether my program has bug or not. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq