Re: Partition by outer join

From: Thomas Kellerer <shammat(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-sql(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Partition by outer join
Date: 2021-08-24 16:45:17
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David G. Johnston schrieb am 24.08.2021 um 18:09:
>> From that stackexchange post, it appears that partition in Oracle
>> is similar to cross joins in Postgres -- where elements are
>> included in the result set as a matrix, whether they exist in the
>> source data or not (so sparsely populated values are included as
>> nulls when they exist in either of the two columns that are cross
>> joined).
>
>
> What you describe sounds like it would be an SQL Standard (I think)
> "FULL OUTER JOIN".

I think the partitioned outer join generates missing values on the fly
based on the "partition" information. So I think it's a bit different
than "just" a full outer join.

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