Re: [GENERAL] old style outer joins

2006-02-06 Thread Richard Huxton
James Harper wrote: I think the answer is no, but can anyone tell me if postgresql supports the older (pre sql-92?) style outer join syntax, eg: SELECT * FROM a,b WHERE a.pk *= b.fk I don't think that was ever part of the SQL standard - just an Oracle-ism. And no, PG doesn't support it - sorr

Re: [GENERAL] old style outer joins

2006-02-06 Thread James Harper
> On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 09:42:22PM +1100, James Harper wrote: > > I think the answer is no, but can anyone tell me if postgresql supports > > the older (pre sql-92?) style outer join syntax, eg: > > I think you're referring to some kind of non-standard > invented-by-oracle syntax. > > > It does

Re: [GENERAL] old style outer joins

2006-02-06 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 09:42:22PM +1100, James Harper wrote: > I think the answer is no, but can anyone tell me if postgresql supports > the older (pre sql-92?) style outer join syntax, eg: I think you're referring to some kind of non-standard invented-by-oracle syntax. > It doesn't appear to s

[GENERAL] old style outer joins

2006-02-06 Thread James Harper
I think the answer is no, but can anyone tell me if postgresql supports the older (pre sql-92?) style outer join syntax, eg: SELECT * FROM a,b WHERE a.pk *= b.fk It doesn't appear to support that exact syntax, which suggests it doesn't know what I'm talking about, but maybe there's a system optio