From: Oliveiros C, <oliveiros.cristina@marktest.pt>
To: 8q5tmkyqry@sneakemail.com
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: selecting rows tagged with "a" but not "b"
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 13:44:57 -0000
Message-ID: <EF7B374E13D54540A126F67B8154A2F7@marktestcr.marktest.pt> (raw)
References: <11366-1265031099-334353@sneakemail.com>
Darrell,
Can you provide a little more information and background on your problem.
please?
What values can the "tag" column assume? Just "a" and "b" ?
Both?
Please give examples of table contents and desired output, your mail doesn't
contain enough info to give you more advises
Thank you
Best,
Oliveiros
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From: <8q5tmkyqry@sneakemail.com>
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Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 1:31 PM
Subject: [SQL] selecting rows tagged with "a" but not "b"
> Hi,
>
> I have a two tables:
>
> article
> articleID, name, content
>
> tags
> articleID, tag
>
> I want to find all articles that are tagged with "a" but not "b"
>
> how do I do this?
>
> what I'd like to do is:
>
> <wishful thinking>
> select articleID from tags where tag="a"
> SUBTRACT
> select articleID from tags where tab="b"
> </wishful thinking>
>
> how do I do this in real SQL?
>
> thanks
>
> Darrell
>
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