From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
To: Rajesh Kumar Mallah <mallah@trade-india.com>
Cc: Tomasz Myrta <jasiek@klaster.net>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: sql question regarding count(*)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 22:40:14 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <20030306223558.A87666-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200303071201.38192.mallah@trade-india.com>
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Rajesh Kumar Mallah wrote:
> On Friday 07 March 2003 11:41 am, Stephan Szabo wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Rajesh Kumar Mallah wrote:
> > > Tomasz did you notice the two queries are totally differet on different
> > > tables?
> >
> > A count() on a non-grouped table returns 1 row.
> >
> > A grouped table returns 1 row per group. If there are no groups, no rows
> > are returned. If the groups are filtered by a having clause, it might
> > also return no rows.
>
> True the second query does not return any row.
> even in first case no rows are returned.
>
> where is the difference?
>
I don't think I understand the question.
select userid from users where userid=-1
returns 1 row for each row the where clause returns true
and 0 rows if there are none.
select count(*) from users where userid=-1
returns 1 row (it's not a grouped table)
select count(*) from users where userid=-1 group by userid
returns 1 row if there is at least 1 row having userid=-1
or 0 rows otherwise (either there is a group or there isn't)
select count(*) from users where userid=-1 group by userid
having userid!=-1
should return 0 rows because even if there is a group it'll fail the
having clause.
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