Re: OUTER joins

From: "Thomas G(dot) Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: OUTER joins
Date: 1999-03-01 17:10:49
Message-ID: 36DACA19.E6DBE7D8@alumni.caltech.edu
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(back from a short vacation...)

> How do you propose doing outer joins in non-mergejoin situations?
> Mergejoins can only be used currently in equal joins.

Hadn't thought about it, other than figuring that implementing the
equi-join first was a good start. There is a class of outer join syntax
(the USING clause) which is implicitly an equi-join...

- Tom

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