I'll defer to you.

At 01:00 PM 5/28/2007, Baron Schwartz wrote:
>Dave Dyer wrote:
>>Thanks, it turns out you are exactly right.  I rewrote
>>the query to keep the "on" immediately following the "left join"
>>and it now works as I wish.
>>I'll have to read up on "cross join", but if there
>>is a mysql bug here, it is that the parser that what I wrote as "left join" 
>>was turned into a cross join. 
>>-- the second "on" clause in a row ought to have triggered
>>a complaint.
>
>Yes, I too thought that should be an error.  I have tried to figure out 
>whether it's illegal to have two in a row or to omit an ON or USING clause, 
>but I can't convince myself completely by referring to 
>http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/join.html.  I'm not sure I am reading 
>it correctly.  But it does seem the parser should reject it.
>
>If you want to pursue this further I won't duplicate your effort, but I'm 
>happy to dig deeper on it and see if there is a bug.
>
>Baron


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