From: | "James Harper" <james(dot)harper(at)bendigoit(dot)com(dot)au> |
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To: | "Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
Cc: | <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: old style outer joins |
Date: | 2006-02-06 11:09:30 |
Message-ID: | AEC6C66638C05B468B556EA548C1A77DAF0766@trantor |
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> On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 09:42:22PM +1100, James Harper wrote:
> > I think the answer is no, but can anyone tell me if postgresql
supports
> > the older (pre sql-92?) style outer join syntax, eg:
>
> I think you're referring to some kind of non-standard
> invented-by-oracle syntax.
>
> > It doesn't appear to support that exact syntax, which suggests it
> > doesn't know what I'm talking about, but maybe there's a system
option
> > to turn it on???
>
> PostgreSQL has never supported this, nor is likely to ever do so.
> Does anyone else actually support that syntax?
I known MSSQL does, and I was thinking that oracle did too, but then I
remembered it was actually Sybase, which is the same as MSSQL. So yeah,
sounds like an invented-by-someone syntax.
Thanks
James
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