Forms 10g and ANSI joins

Question

Hello,
I had thought that Oracle Forms 10g was now fully in line with the 10g database in terms of the SQL and PL/SQL it supports. However, I notice that while I can use ANSI-syntax joins ('inner join', 'left outer join' etc) in record groups, I can't use them in trigger or procedure PL/SQL. For example, the following:
  cursor dist_bacs_csr(c_pln_id plan.id%TYPE)
  is
    select a.id as a_id
         , a.prcng_ccy_cd
         , a.sht_nam
         , a.dist_bac_key1
         , a.dist_bac_key2
    from   asset a
    inner join asset_hldg ash on (a.id = ash.a_id)
    inner join bank_acc bac on (a.dist_bac_key1 = bac.key1 and a.dist_bac_key2 = bac.key2)
    where ash.inc_acc_ind = 'I'
    and   ash.pln_id = c_pln_id
    order by ash.a_id;works fine in SQL Plus, but if I try to include it in my form, I get the error 'Encountered the symbol "INNER" when expecting one of the following: ,; for group having intersect minus order start union where connect'
Does anyone know if Oracle plan to support ANSI joins in future versions of Forms? Or is there something obvious I'm missing..?
Cheers,
James
Edited by: James Killeen on Aug 31, 2009 8:29 PM (The alias we normally use for the ASSET table apparently triggered the forum's filter against inappropriate language..! Replaced with a nice harmless 'a' instead...)

Answer 1

Thanks for that - I tried FULL INNER JOIN as well but still wouldn't compile. I'll probably stick with the old-style join format for now, as I don't want to make this a procedure just so I can use the new syntax. A shame, though, as I much prefer the ANSI syntax - would be curious to know if Oracle have any plans to support it in future versions of Forms. Does anyone know if it's supported in Forms 11?