Re: Documentation Issue?

From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: silva(dot)rick(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Documentation Issue?
Date: 2020-07-16 02:17:43
Message-ID: CA+hUKGLF_99pGPn0hWKFtpmUH0QgZwFnjHBBhi1y8jsAs+Gq9A@mail.gmail.com
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<noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
>
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/tutorial-join.html
> Description:
>
> The documentation at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/tutorial-join.html
> shows this query:
>
> SELECT *
> FROM weather, cities
> WHERE city = name;
>
> And then presents the following query as "an alternate form" that is "not as
> commonly used as the one above":
>
> SELECT *
> FROM weather INNER JOIN cities ON (weather.city = cities.name);
>
> Isn't that backwards? Isn't the first query the old ANSI-89 syntax?
> Shouldn't we be using then newer "INNER JOIN" syntax?

+1

Would you like to review the patch proposed over here?

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/158996922318.7035.10603922579567326239%40wrigleys.postgresql.org

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