The syntax for expressing joins permits nested joins. The following discussion refers to the join syntax described in Section 13.2.9.2, “JOIN Clause”.
表示连接的语法允许嵌套连接。
The syntax of table_factor
is extended in comparison with the SQL Standard.
与SQL Standard相比,table_factor的语法得到了扩展。
The latter accepts only table_reference
, not a list of them inside a pair of parentheses.
后者只接受table_reference,而不是圆括号内的列表。
This is a conservative extension if we consider each comma in a list of table_reference
items as equivalent to an inner join. For example:
如果我们认为table_reference项列表中的每个逗号等同于一个内部连接,那么这就是一个保守的扩展。例如: