From: ed.temp.01@gmail.com
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: selects on differing subsets of a query
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 09:47:49 +0100
Message-ID: <306f0afd0605030147i598ba049q9ef55a3f3b08847c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
First post, be gentle as I have terminology problems and so the
subject might be wrongly worded.
Say I have a table with fields
...
gender
diet_pref
...
What I am trying to construct is a *single* query showing the total
number of males in the table
and also the total number of male vegetarians in the table, i.e. the
2nd value is computed on a subset of the records needed for the first
value.
As 2 queries this would be:
select count(*) from mytab where gender='m'
select count(*) from mytab where gender='m' and diet_pref='veg'
The table is big and I'd like to do the select where gender='m' only
once. (In the actual situation the select is on a date range)
If there is a TFM, please point me at it with an indication of exactly
what it is I am trying to achieve. If I'm trying to do something
stupid, gentle advice would be appreciated.
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