From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
To: Neil Dugan <postgres@butterflystitches.com.au>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: joining two simular (but not identical tables)
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 07:00:31 -0600
Message-ID: <20050904130031.GA9978@winnie.fuhr.org> (raw)
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On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 10:19:12PM +1000, Neil Dugan wrote:
> I have two similar but not identical tables.
> I would like to create a view that combines the contents of both tables
> into a single view, where each record in each table is visible as a
> separate record in the view.
Sounds like you're looking for UNION.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/queries-union.htmlhttp://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/typeconv-union-case.html
Does the following example do what you want?
CREATE TABLE a (x integer, y integer);
INSERT INTO a (x, y) VALUES (1, 2);
INSERT INTO a (x, y) VALUES (3, 4);
CREATE TABLE b (x integer, z integer);
INSERT INTO b (x, z) VALUES (5, 6);
INSERT INTO b (x, z) VALUES (7, 8);
CREATE VIEW v AS
SELECT x, y, NULL AS z FROM a
UNION ALL
SELECT x, NULL AS y, z FROM b;
SELECT * FROM v;
x | y | z
---+---+---
1 | 2 |
3 | 4 |
5 | | 6
7 | | 8
(4 rows)
--
Michael Fuhr
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