From: | Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | shammat(at)gmx(dot)net, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Change JOIN tutorial to focus more on explicit joins |
Date: | 2020-05-20 21:56:02 |
Message-ID: | CA+hUKG+K+75fo+cKA2Vb_kmFsxX=9qgi48_dLqPyShfhFdSKMw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 1:37 AM PG Doc comments form
<noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
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> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/tutorial-join.html
> Description:
>
> The tutorial about joins makes the following statement about the explicit
> JOIN operator:
>
> > This syntax is not as commonly used as the one above
>
> I think in 2020 this claim is no longer true, and I would love to see the
> manual prefer the "modern" explicit JOIN operator rather than sticking to
> the ancient implicit joins in the WHERE clause.
+1
The "new" syntax is 28 years old, from SQL 92. I don't see too many
SQL 86 joins. Would you like to write a documentation patch?
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