Re: Change JOIN tutorial to focus more on explicit joins - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Thomas Munro
Subject Re: Change JOIN tutorial to focus more on explicit joins
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Msg-id CA+hUKG+K+75fo+cKA2Vb_kmFsxX=9qgi48_dLqPyShfhFdSKMw@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Change JOIN tutorial to focus more on explicit joins  (PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org>)
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On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 1:37 AM PG Doc comments form
<noreply@postgresql.org> wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
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> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/tutorial-join.html
> Description:
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> The tutorial about joins makes the following statement about the explicit
> JOIN operator:
>
> > This syntax is not as commonly used as the one above
>
> I think in 2020 this claim is no longer true, and I would love to see the
> manual prefer the "modern" explicit JOIN operator rather than sticking to
> the ancient implicit joins in the WHERE clause.

+1

The "new" syntax is 28 years old, from SQL 92.  I don't see too many
SQL 86 joins.  Would you like to write a documentation patch?



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