Re: NULL values or not?

From: "Wei Weng" <wweng(at)kencast(dot)com>
To: <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: NULL values or not?
Date: 2001-12-21 21:37:52
Message-ID: NEBBLAIMPMNDAPBMNGJNCEHKCCAA.wweng@kencast.com
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Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly is a "multi-column" join?
<snip>
> gb_accessions, the clones who are missing GB will not show up with a
> blank GB, instead they will not show up at all! You can get around this
> with OUTER JOINS, but OUTER JOINs are not dependable for multi-column
> joins.
<snip>

I also used a lot of NULLs in my table schemas though never in the
primary(foreign) keys. Is that bad?

Thank you.

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Wei Weng
Network Software Engineer
KenCast Inc.

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