Re: Inner Join?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: jeff(at)emojo(dot)com (Jeff Rhys-Jones)
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Inner Join?
Date: 2001-07-10 23:32:08
Message-ID: 16372.994807928@sss.pgh.pa.us
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jeff(at)emojo(dot)com (Jeff Rhys-Jones) writes:
> Hi there - we've hit a bit of a brick wall with this and I was
> wondering if someone could help us out. Our MS-SQL code is this :

> SELECT ...
> FROM "Site","AppUser"
> WHERE "Site"."SiteCode"=1
> AND "Site"."SecurityContactCode" *= "AppUser"."UserCode"

> And it's the "* =" at the very end of the table which is causing the
> problem.

> Our dev. guy has told me that "*=" in MS speak is INNER JOIN.

I believe it's actually an outer join; inner join is the standard and
wouldn't need any special syntax. You probably want

SELECT ...
FROM "Site" LEFT OUTER JOIN "AppUser" ON
("Site"."SecurityContactCode" = "AppUser"."UserCode")
WHERE "Site"."SiteCode"=1

assuming that I've guessed right...

regards, tom lane

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