Re: Outer Joins

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Robert B(dot) Easter" <reaster(at)comptechnews(dot)com>, "Poul L(dot) Christiansen" <poulc(at)cs(dot)auc(dot)dk>, Michael Dunn <michael(at)2cactus(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Outer Joins
Date: 2001-01-23 17:13:28
Message-ID: 6803.980270008@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Can someone explain why cname and date from table c gets printed in this
> query?

Say what?

test=# CREATE TABLE a (id INTEGER, name TEXT, aname TEXT);
CREATE
test=# CREATE TABLE b (id INTEGER, name TEXT, bname TEXT);
CREATE
test=# CREATE TABLE c (id INTEGER, name TEXT, cname TEXT, date DATE DEFAULT
test(# CURRENT_DATE);
CREATE
test=# SELECT * FROM a FULL OUTER JOIN b USING (id);
id | name | aname | name | bname
----+------+-------+------+-------
(0 rows)

regards, tom lane

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