Selecting from multiple tables

It's possible to select records from several sources at a time. Consider the following examples. There are two tables, each with three rows:

car_portal=> SELECT * FROM car_portal_app.a; a_int | a_text-------+--------     1 | one     2 | two     3 | three(3 rows)car_portal=> SELECT * FROM car_portal_app.b; b_int | b_text-------+--------     2 | two     3 | three     4 | four(3 rows)

When records are selected from both of them, we get all the possible combinations of all their rows:

car_portal=> SELECT * FROM car_portal_app.a, car_portal_app.b; a_int | a_text | b_int | b_text-------+--------+-------+--------     1 | one    |     2 | two     1 | one    |     3 | three     1 | one    |     4 | four     2 | two    |     2 | two     2 | two    |     3 | three     2 | two    |     4 | four 3 | three | 2 ...

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