Re: OUTER joins - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Thomas G. Lockhart
Subject Re: OUTER joins
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In response to OUTER joins  (Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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(back from a short vacation...)

> How do you propose doing outer joins in non-mergejoin situations?
> Mergejoins can only be used currently in equal joins.

Hadn't thought about it, other than figuring that implementing the
equi-join first was a good start. There is a class of outer join syntax
(the USING clause) which is implicitly an equi-join...
                       - Tom


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