Re: outer joins

Hello,

I believe these are supported in 7.1

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, [iso-8859-4] Algirdas ©akmanas wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I'm new to postgre, I've changed my work and consequently now i'm moving
>from MS plaform.
>In MS SQL there are such constructs left or right outer join, in postgres
>there are no such thing
>
>Can You offer me strategy to make query that selects from table (a) and
>joins to it another (b)
>on e.g. a.id=b.aid but joins so that in case there is no value in table b
>NULL is left in result:
>in MS SQL i've used query:
>
>select a.id, b.name from a left outer join b on a.id=b.aid
>
>table a table b
>
>id | aid | name
>----------- ----------------
>1 1 | Tom
>2 3 | Sam
>
>result:
>a.id | b.name
>---------------------
>1 | Tom
>2 | NULL
>
>thank you in advance
>
>Algirdas ©akmanas
>IT manager
>+370 99 90369
>asakmanas(at)grafton(dot)lt
>Grafton Entertainment
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>
>
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