From: Steve Sabljak <sql-ss@sabljak.org>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Aggregating both tables in a join?
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:22:21 +1100
Message-ID: <81c28d920701110422y6217a3a8xa95276698b144096@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hi,
I've got a table which models the relationship between flights and
legs, which is defined like this:-
create table flight_leg (
flight_id integer references flight(id),
leg_id integer references leg(id)
);
One leg may be part of many flights and one flight may be made up of 1
or more legs.
I also have a table which maps flights to comparable flights. The
mapping is created manually. It is defined like this:-
create table cmp_flight (
flight_id integer references flight(id),
cmp_flight_id integer references flight(id)
);
The flight and leg tables referenced are omitted for brevity.
I want to be able to show all the flight_ids and their leg counts as
well as the cmp_flight_ids and leg counts.
e.g.
insert into flight_legs values (1, 1);
insert into flight_legs values (1, 2);
insert into flight_legs values (2, 3);
insert into flight_legs values (2, 4);
insert into flight_legs values (2, 5);
insert into flight_legs values (3, 3);
insert into flight_legs values (4, 1);
insert into flight_legs values (5, 3);
insert into flight_legs values (5, 4);
insert into flight_legs values (6, 4);
insert into flight_legs values (7, 5);
insert into cmp_flight values (1, 2);
insert into cmp_flight values (1, 3);
insert into cmp_flight values (4, 5);
insert into cmp_flight values (4, 6);
insert into cmp_flight values (4, 7);
The result I'm looking for is
flight_id num_legs cmp_flight_id cmp_num_legs
1 2 2 3
1 2 3 1
4 1 5 2
4 1 6 1
4 1 7 1
This does the trick:-
select cf.flight_id, tl1.num_legs, cf.cmp_flight_id, tl2.num_legs cmp_num_legs
from cmp_flight cf
join (select fl1.flight_id fid1, count(*) num_legs
from flight_leg fl1 group by fl1.flight_id) tl1 on fid1 = cf.flight_id
join (select fl2.flight_id fid2, count(*) num_legs
from flight_leg fl2 group by fl2.flight_id) tl2 on fid2 =
cf.cmp_flight_id;
Is this a better way to go about it?
I've considered keeping a track of the number of legs in the flight
table, using a trigger, but it doesn't seem relationally 'clean'.
Kind Regards,
Steve Sabljak
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