On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 14:32, Chris Hoover wrote:
> Question,
>
> What is the difference between left join, and left outer join?
>
> I know the difference between inner and outer joins, but I was
> thinking that left join == inner join. But from what I am now seeing,
> it appears that PG is equating left join to left outer join. Is this
> correct?
A left or right join IS an outer join, as is a full join.
the outer is just syntactic sugar.