Looking in the Informix manuals, I now see how they handle complex outer
joins:

	SELECT *	
	FROM tab1, OUTER(tab2, tab3)
	WHERE tab1.col1 = tab2.col1 AND
	      tab2.col1 = tab3.col1

It does the tab2, tab3 join first, then _outer_ joins to tab1. 
Interesting.

	
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Wed, 12 Jan 2000 15:38:10 -0500 (EST)
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Informix and OUTER join syntax