Re: Outer Joins

"Robert B. Easter" <reaster@comptechnews.com> writes:
>>>> UNION JOIN is deprecated
>>
>> Oh?  By whom?

> I read it in the SQL spec.  ANSI/ISO 9075-2 1999 (final).

>          It is intended that the following features will be removed at a
>          later date from a revised version of this part of ISO/IEC 9075:
>          1) The ability to specify UNION JOIN in a <joined table> has been
>             deprecated.

Interesting.  Maybe we won't ever bother to do it, then.

            regards, tom lane