I ran into the following SQL code which (successfully) outputs a list of parents and the age of their youngest child:
SELECT parents.name AS name, MIN(children.age) AS age FROM people children
INNER JOIN people parents ON (parents.id = children.fatherId OR parents.id = children.motherId)
GROUP BY parents.id
The code self joins a table named "people" on itself. I just wanted to ask how does the OR operator work here? I know OR as a logical operator but here it seems it does something else. It takes two arguments and just joins on both of them. What does it have to do with logical OR?