Re: Outer Joins

From: "Robert B(dot) Easter" <reaster(at)comptechnews(dot)com>
To: "Poul L(dot) Christiansen" <poulc(at)cs(dot)auc(dot)dk>, Michael Dunn <michael(at)2cactus(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Outer Joins
Date: 2001-01-07 01:19:58
Message-ID: 01010620195818.09559@comptechnews
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What is the syntax for this? Is there an example I can see/run?

On Thursday 04 January 2001 04:30, Poul L. Christiansen wrote:
> PostgreSQL 7.1 (which is in beta now) will have outer joins.
>
> It will probably (and hopefully) be released in Jan./Feb., but the beta
> seems quite stable to me.
>
> Poul L. Christiansen
>
> Michael Dunn wrote:
> > I am relatively new to the list and somewhat new to PostgreSQL. I am
> > wondering if there has been any discussion or thought about including
> > outer joins in later releases of PostreSQL. It seems highly inefficient
> > simulating outer joins with subqueries and UNION ALL statements. Or,
> > perhaps PostgreSQL has another way prevent unjoined rows from being
> > supressed in the results. Your comments are welcome.
> >
> > Thanks, Micael Dunn

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