Re: Oracle to PostgreSQL help: What is (+) in Oracle select?

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 05:57:14PM -0500, Christopher Audley wrote:
> I'm trying to modify an application which runs on Oracle to run against
> PostgreSQL. I'm currently stuck on a query that I can't recognize, it
> doesn't look like standard SQL.
>
> A select is done across two tables, however when joining the foreign
> key, the right hand side of the equallity has (+) appended
>
> SELECT o.* from one o, two t where o.key = t.key(+)
>
> Does anyone know what this does and how I can reproduce the select in
> PostgreSQL?

It's an outer join. In Postgres it'd be

SELECT o.* from one left outer join two using ( key )

but it's new in 7.1 .

Richard