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Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:00:34 -0400
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Subject: Re: 7.2. Table Expressions suggestion about NATURAL JOIN
From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Grzegorz Szpetkowski <gszpetkowski@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
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On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Grzegorz Szpetkowski
<gszpetkowski@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/queries-table-expressions.html
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/sql-select.html
>
> Respectively:
>
> "Finally, NATURAL is a shorthand form of USING: it forms a USING list
> consisting of all column names that appear in both input tables. As
> with USING, these columns appear only once in the output table."
>
> and
>
> "NATURAL is shorthand for a USING list that mentions all columns in
> the two tables that have the same names."
>
> To make that comprehensive you can add something like: "Note that if
> there is no any "shared" column between tables, then NATURAL JOIN acts
> like ON TRUE (that is, tables are cross-joined)", because it's not
> obvious.

Done, with different wording.

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Robert Haas
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