[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Running Postgres version 7.01 on Redhat linux 6.2. When joining on > more than 10 tables not all of the expected results are returned. > The query can be repeated several times, with different result sets > when the data itself is static. The most common result is the return > of only one record. 11 tables seems to be the magic limit. Joins on > 10 tables works without a hitch. This join was based on a column id > that exists in all of the tables. This seems to be a problem in the genetic query optimizer. But to examine closer we'd really need to get sample data and queries to reproduce this. For now you can SET geqo TO 'off'; to disable this. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://yi.org/peter-e/