Re: [GENERAL] How do you live without OUTER joins?

2000-01-13 Thread Alessio Bragadini
Sarah Officer wrote: How about using a union? select cc.com_cat_long, co.company_name from company_category cc, company co where cc.com_cat_abbr = co.com_cat_abbr union select 'unknown' as com_cat_long, company_name from company where com_cat_abbr is null; Yes, would be the best way

Re: [GENERAL] How do you live without OUTER joins?

2000-01-12 Thread Clark C. Evans
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Bruce Bantos wrote: In my current Oracle DB, I have a number of "lookup" tables that contain something like this: You make a "lookup" function, and you call the function in your select list. It's been a few months since I've played with PostgreSQL, so I don't