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From: Erik Wienhold <[email protected]>
To: Shammat <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Left join syntax error
Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 17:14:32 +0200
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In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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I wrote:
> But I wonder if the implicit cross join syntax ("FROM peoples, companies")
> should actually produce this error because the explicit cross join
> works:
> 
>     SELECT p.lname, p.fname, p.job_title, p.company_nbr, p.email, c.company_name
>     FROM people as p
>         CROSS JOIN companies as c
>         LEFT JOIN companies ON c.company_nbr = p.company_nbr;

On second thought it looks like that (companies as c LEFT JOIN companies)
actually is the second FROM item.  Adding parenthesis to the explicit
cross join version gives the same error:

    SELECT p.lname, p.fname, p.job_title, p.company_nbr, p.email, c.company_name
    FROM people as p
        CROSS JOIN (
            companies as c
            LEFT JOIN companies ON c.company_nbr = p.company_nbr
        );

So the comma in the FROM item list has lower precedence than the join
operators.

-- 
Erik

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