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From: Roy Souther <roy@silicontao.com>
Reply-To: Roy Souther <roy@silicontao.com>
Organization: Silicon Tao Technology Systems
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Bad SUM result
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 14:25:51 -0600
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I have an invoice database that has two tables one for invoices and one for 
payments. I want to get the account balance for a client by subtracting the 
sum of all payments from the sum off all invoices for that client.

Here is the SQL that I thought should work.
SELECT SUM(t0.totalprice)-SUM(t1.paymentamount) FROM invoices t0, payments t1 
WHERE t0.custnumber='1' AND t1.custnumber='1'

It works fine if there is only one invoice and one payment but as soon as 
there is more then one of either it screws up. For each match found in 
payments the invoice sum is added to the total. So if client 1 purchased a 
$100 item then maid a $10 payment the SQL would return the balance of $90 
just fine. When the client makes a second payment of $15 the balance is $75 
but this SQL returns ($100+$100)-($10+$15) = $175. A third payment of $1 
would return ($100+$100+$100)-($10+$15+$1) = $274.

Could some one explain this to me and recommend an SQL command that would work 
please? I could do this using a temp table but that would be very messy as I 
would really like it to be a single SQL command.
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Roy Souther <roy@SiliconTao.com>
http://www.SiliconTao.com

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