From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
Cc: | Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>, Rod Chamberlin <rod(at)querix(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Enhancing PGSQL to be compatible with Informix SQL |
Date: | 2000-01-06 19:16:30 |
Message-ID: | 200001061916.OAA16888@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> > Yes, OUTER is an Informix-ism. Oracle uses *=. I think the first is
> > easier to add and makes more sense for us. *= could be defined by
> > someone as an operator, and overloading our already complex operator
> > code to do *= for OUTER may be too complex for people to understand.
> >
> > It would be:
> >
> > SELECT *
> > FROM tab1, OUTER tab2
> > WHERE tab1.col1 = tab2.col2
>
> What about >2 table joins? Wish I had my book here, but I though tyou
> could do multiple OUTER joins, no?
SELECT *
FROM tab1, OUTER tab2, OUTER tab3
WHERE tab1.col1 = tab2.col2 AND
tab1.col3 = tab3.col3
My assumption is that you can't join tab2 to tab3 becaue tab2 is already
outer, but I don't know.
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