Hi!

I expect the SELECT to return two rows. Would some kind 
soul explain for me why it gives only one row?

TIA

CN
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CREATE TABLE x(c1 text,c2 int2);
INSERT INTO x VALUES('a',10);
INSERT INTO x VALUES('b',NULL);

CREATE TABLE y(c1 int2,c2 int2,c3 text);
INSERT INTO y VALUES(10,9,'yyy');

CREATE TABLE z(c1 text,c2 text);
INSERT INTO z VALUES('a','zzz');
INSERT INTO z VALUES('b','zzzz');

SELECT x.c1,y.c3,z.c2
FROM x JOIN z USING (c1)
  LEFT OUTER JOIN y ON (x.c2=y.c1)
WHERE y.c2=9;

 c1 | c3  | c2  
----+-----+-----
 a  | yyy | zzz

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Comment: The following version of SELECT does return two 
rows as expected, however:

SELECT x.c1,y.c3,z.c2
FROM x JOIN z USING (c1)
  LEFT OUTER JOIN y ON (x.c2=y.c1);

 c1 | c3  |  c2  
----+-----+------
 a  | yyy | zzz
 b  |     | zzzz

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