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From: zqzuk <ziqi.zhang@hotmail.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: nested select within a DISCTINCT block
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:11:12 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <6315840.post@talk.nabble.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C12F48D8.54FF%daryl@eddl.us>
References: <6310575.post@talk.nabble.com>
	<C12F48D8.54FF%daryl@eddl.us>


Thanks alot!!!



Daryl Richter-2 wrote:
> 
> On 9/14/06 1:13 PM, "zqzuk" <ziqi.zhang@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hi, here i have a problem with this task...
>> 
>> I have a table "cancellation" which stores cancelled bookings and details
>> of
>> charges etc 
>> and a table "bookings" which stores details of bookings, for example:
>> 
>> cancellation(cancellation_id, booking_id, charge)
>> booking(booking_id, customer_id, product_package_id, details)
>> 
>> in the query, i wish to find, how many customers have booked for each
>> product_package_id. if there were 3 bookings for product_package_id=1,
>> and
>> all these are cancelled and therefore exist in cancellation, then the
>> query
>> result shoud display something like
>> 
>> package_id,   #of bookings
>> 1                  0
>> 
>> 
>> here are what i tried
>> 
>> select distinct b.product_package_id,
>> count (distinct b.customer_id and not exists (select cc from cancellation
>> cc
>> where cc.booking_id=b.booking_id)) from booking as b
>> group by b.product_package_id
>> 
>> and it doesnt work. the syntax within the DISTINCT is wrong,
>> unsurprisingly.
>> 
>> 
>> i also tried 
>> select distinct b.product_package_id,
>> count (distinct b.customer_id not in (select cc from cancellation cc
>> where
>> cc.booking_id=b.booking_id)) from booking as b
>> group by b.product_package_id
>> 
>> it produced incorrect result. ie, for those canceled bookings are also
>> counted, producing
>> package_id,   #of bookings
>> 1                  3
>> 
>> which supposed to be
>> package_id,   #of bookings
>> 1                  0
>> 
>> 
>> could anyone give any hints please, many thanks !
>> 
> 
> create table booking(booking_id int, customer_id int, product_package_id
> int, details text);
> 
> create table cancellation(cancellation_id int , booking_id int, charge
> decimal); 
> 
> insert into booking values( 1, 1, 1, 'Cxl Booking 1' );
> insert into booking values( 2, 2, 1, 'Cxl Booking 2' );
> insert into booking values( 3, 2, 1, 'Ok Booking 3' );
> insert into booking values( 4, 3, 2, 'Cxl Booking 4' );
> 
> insert into cancellation values( 1, 1, 1.00 );
> insert into cancellation values( 2, 2, 1.00 );
> insert into cancellation values( 3, 4, 1.00 );
> 
> 
> select distinct product_package_id,
>        ( select count(booking_id)
>          from booking b2
>          where
>             b2.product_package_id = b1.product_package_id
>         and not exists ( select 1 from cancellation c where c.booking_id =
> b2.booking_id ) ) as uncancelled_bookings
> from booking b1
> order by product_package_id;
> 
>  product_package_id     uncancelled_bookings
>  ---------------------  -----------------------
>  1                      1
>  2                      0
> 
>  2 record(s) selected [Fetch MetaData: 2/ms] [Fetch Data: 0/ms]
> 
>  [Executed: 9/14/06 5:56:07 PM EDT ] [Execution: 86/ms]
> 
> 
> --
> Daryl
> http://itsallsemantics.com
> 
> "I¹m afraid of the easy stuffŠ its always harder than it seemsŠ"
> -- Bill Hampton, 2006
> 
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