Re: Partition by outer join

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Steve Midgley <science(at)misuse(dot)org>
Cc: aditya desai <admad123(at)gmail(dot)com>, Hubert Lubaczewski <depesz(at)depesz(dot)com>, pgsql-sql <pgsql-sql(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Partition by outer join
Date: 2021-08-24 16:09:26
Message-ID: CAKFQuwaTxJsS_7pm0RjrEOZDXJS=HmVG5ZJq7Y-n=1k6Bon6Gg@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 9:02 AM Steve Midgley <science(at)misuse(dot)org> wrote:

>
> 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".

David J.

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