If he's using a restriction upon an outer joined table in the where clause
it might be returning results like it was an inner join, ie:
select * from A left outer join B on A.id=B.id
where B.accessed>'2005-10-31';
Instead you'd want to check for the outer joined field having a null
value in the where clause, or move that restriction up to the on clause:
select * from A left outer join B
on A.id=B.id AND B.accessed>'2005-10-31';
or
select * from A left outer join B
on A.id=B.id
where (B.accessed IS NULL OR B.accessed>'2005-10-31');
I assure you, outer joins work just fine on PostgreSQL.
Jason
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of D Kavan
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 2:55 PM
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: [ADMIN] outer joins
Hi,
One the developers is saying that he can't do outer joins on postgresql.
Is this true? We have postgresql 8.02.
He is using this syntax:
select from A left outer join b on A.id=B.id;
This processes but comes back with a result like it was an inner join.
~DjK
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