Foxpro cannot disregard table3 and table4 because the join on table3 and table4 could affect the number of records returned.

>Hello all
>
>say a have view which joins 3 or 4 tables together
>when I issue an
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>Select field1, field2, field3 from theView WHERE field2 = "somecondition"
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>saying that the fields in the select statement are only from table1 and table2
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>would the join on table3 and table4 interally in the view be executed or is
>FoxPro clever enough to omit them?
>
>Christian