On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 1:37 AM PG Doc comments form
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> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
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> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/tutorial-join.html
> Description:
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> The tutorial about joins makes the following statement about the explicit
> JOIN operator:
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> > This syntax is not as commonly used as the one above
>
> I think in 2020 this claim is no longer true, and I would love to see the
> manual prefer the "modern" explicit JOIN operator rather than sticking to
> the ancient implicit joins in the WHERE clause.
+1
The "new" syntax is 28 years old, from SQL 92. I don't see too many
SQL 86 joins. Would you like to write a documentation patch?