Re: why does this select hang postgres???

>
> select * from env_info,summary,plat_info;
>
> Is my statement broken?  Is this not legal?  Postgres just sits there....
>
> My goal is to select everything from multiple tables with one sql
> statement.

You didn't join the tables.  This will join each row to every other row.
This will take a long time.

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