Received: from candle.pha.pa.us (pgman@s5-03.ppp.op.net [209.152.195.67]) by hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA48210 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 20:27:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from pgman@candle.pha.pa.us) Received: (from pgman@localhost) by candle.pha.pa.us (8.9.0/8.9.0) id UAA12461; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 20:26:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200004190026.UAA12461@candle.pha.pa.us> Subject: Re: Outer joins In-Reply-To: from "Michael S. Kelly" at "Apr 18, 2000 11:17:02 am" To: "Michael S. Kelly" Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 20:26:14 -0400 (EDT) CC: kaiq@realtyideas.com, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL72 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archive-Number: 200004/194 [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Actually found the answer to my question in Bruce Momjian's book. I'm > shamefaced to say that I never considered UNION ALL solve the problem. Don't be. It took me a few years of apologizing for no Outer joins until I found the answer. If others already knew it, I hadn't seen it. -- Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026