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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Nick Stone <nick@harelane.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: SQL Query question
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:18:10 +0200
Message-ID: <200506301318.11588.peter_e@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050630092944.E94022514BD@smtp.nildram.co.uk>
References: <20050630092944.E94022514BD@smtp.nildram.co.uk>

Am Donnerstag, 30. Juni 2005 11:27 schrieb Nick Stone:
> SELECT
>     tbl1."TermTypeID",
>     tbl1."ParentID",
>     tbl1."KeywordID",
>     tbl1."Term",
>     tbl2."KeywordID"
> FROM
>     "Terms" As tbl1 LEFT JOIN
>     "SearchStore" As tbl2 ON tbl1."KeywordID" = tbl2."KeywordID"
> WHERE
>     (tbl1."TermTypeID" >= 200) AND
>     (tbl1."TermTypeID" < 600) AND
>     (tbl1."IsSynonym" = false) AND
>     (tbl1."LanguageID" = 1) AND
>     (tbl2."StockID" = 1)
> ORDER BY
>     tbl1."TermTypeID",
>     tbl1."Term";
>
> Just to be obvious both queries as far as I can should return everything
> from Terms and anything if it exists from SearchStore subject to the WHERE
> clause parameters - obviously!

The condition (tbl2."StockID" = 1) will remove all rows that have null values 
in the tbl2 fields, thus making your left join useless.  Perhaps you should 
change that to (tbl2."StockID" = 1 OR tbl2."StockID" IS NULL) -- or use your 
first version.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/



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