| From: | Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> |
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| To: | Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Rod Chamberlin <rod(at)querix(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Enhancing PGSQL to be compatible with InformixSQL |
| Date: | 2000-01-06 19:08:00 |
| Message-ID: | 3874E810.4762A42@alumni.caltech.edu |
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> I've been wanting outer joins, but in my porting efforts have managed
> to work around them without too much difficulty, even though 6.5's
> limitations on subselects (not in target lists) requires that I
> create PL/pgSQL functions in some cases.
> I certainly can't speak for the majority of users, but as one data
> point I'd personally rather see outer joins done right (SQL 92
> syntax) and wait a bit.
A bit of a misunderstanding here: we are using SQL92 syntax but will
try to implement the outer join operation using *internal* data
structures similar to what we have now.
Any alternate syntaxes are just a diversion which slow us down on the
road to world domination ;)
- Thomas
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Thomas Lockhart lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu
South Pasadena, California
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