Re: Oracle to PostgreSQL help: What is (+) in Oracle select? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 05:57:14PM -0500, Christopher Audley wrote:
> I'm trying to modify an application which runs on Oracle to run against 
> PostgreSQL.  I'm currently stuck on a query that I can't recognize, it 
> doesn't look like standard SQL.
> 
> A select is done across two tables, however when joining the foreign 
> key, the right hand side of the equallity has (+) appended
> 
> SELECT o.* from one o, two t where o.key = t.key(+)
> 
> Does anyone know what this does and how I can reproduce the select in 
> PostgreSQL?

It's an outer join. In Postgres it'd be

SELECT o.* from one left outer join two using ( key )

but it's new in 7.1 .

Richard