"Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> ... Oracle, for example, uses a completely
> non-standard notation for Outer Joins that is not compatible with any
> other database, nor will it recognize SQL standard syntax for Outer
> Joins.
I was under the impression that Oracle *does* accept the standard
outer-join syntax. But there's a lot of people who are used to their
legacy syntax, and a lot of application code that still uses it.
regards, tom lane