On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 14:45:22 +0100,
Michał Otroszczenko <michal.otroszczenko@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wonder If I could move additional join condition from ON part of
> query to where part.
Yes, but the semantics are different for outer joins.
>
> For example instead of:
>
> SELECT * FROM
> booking_load AS bload
> LEFT OUTER JOIN dict_load_type_tsl AS load_tsl ON (
> load_tsl.dict_load_type_id = bload.dict_load_type_id
> AND load_tsl.dict_language_id = 'EN' ))
>
> Could I write:
>
> SELECT * FROM
> booking_load AS bload
> LEFT OUTER JOIN dict_load_type_tsl AS load_tsl USING (dict_load_type_id)
> WHERE
> load_tsl.dict_language_id = 'EN'
>
> I thought that second query could be more 'optimizable', but gave no results.
> Where is the problem ?
>
> Best regards,
> Michal
>
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