My bad. It is doing what it is supposed to. Now I just have to figure out why it is not giving me the results I am looking for.
Sim "Sim Zacks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I tried the following code and was very suprised this didn't work the way I > had expected it to. Is my expectation correct or the way that it implements > it correct? > > select * from a left join > ( b join c on b.f1=c.f1 join d on d.f2=c.f2 join e on e.f3=d.f3) on > a.f4=b.f4 > > I would like it to have all the rows from a left joined with the total inner > join of the rest. > It actually performs it as if I did not have parenthesis at all and had the > inner join connected to the left outer join thereby excluding all rows that > do not have a match from b to c > > Thank You > Sim > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
