From: Dmitri Bichko <dbichko@aveopharma.com>
To: Mischa Sandberg <mischa.sandberg@telus.net>
Cc: Lane Van Ingen <lvaningen@esncc.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Is it This Join Condition Do-Able?
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:57:37 -0400
Message-ID: <F18A6F7CF1661F46920F2CF713122FED46CC6D@mail.aveo.aveopharma.com> (raw)
I don't see what the problem is.
Did you mean to insert (3,'C3') into table c, rather than b?
Dmitri
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mischa Sandberg [mailto:mischa.sandberg@telus.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 3:31 PM
> To: Dmitri Bichko
> Cc: Lane Van Ingen; pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [SQL] Is it This Join Condition Do-Able?
>
>
> Quoting Dmitri Bichko <dbichko@aveopharma.com>:
>
> > How about:
> >
> > SELECT a.keyfld, a.foo1, b.foo2, c.foo3
> > FROM a
> > LEFT JOIN b USING(keyfld)
> > LEFT JOIN c USING(keyfld)
>
> ((( See response at end )))
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> [mailto:pgsql-sql-owner@postgresql.org]
> > > On Behalf Of Lane Van
> > Ingen
> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 12:55 PM
> > > Subject: [SQL] Is it This Join Condition Do-Able?
> > >
> > > Given three tables: a, b, c ; each consist of a 'keyfld' and
> > > a field called
> > > 'foo':
> > > tbl a tbl b tbl c
> > > --------- --------- ---------
> > > a.keyfld b.keyfld c.keyfld
> > > a.foo1 b.foo2 c.foo3
> > >
> > > I want to always return all of tbl a; and I want to return
> > > b.foo2 and c.foo3 if they can be joined to based on keyfld.a;
> > > I know that it will involve a LEFT OUTER JOIN on table a, but
> > > have not seen any examples of joins like this on 3 or more tables.
> ...
>
> Having a bit of uncertainty of how LEFT JOIN associates, I tried the
> following test (psql -qe), with (to me) highly surprising results.
> Anyone care to comment on the third row of output?
>
> select version();
> version
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------------------
> PostgreSQL 8.0.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.3.3
> (SuSE Linux)
>
> create temp table a(keyf int, val text);
> create temp table b(keyf int, val text);
> create temp table c(keyf int, val text);
> insert into a values(1, 'A1');
> insert into a values(2, 'A2');
> insert into a values(3, 'A3');
> insert into a values(4, 'A4');
> insert into b values(1, 'B1');
> insert into b values(2, 'B2');
> insert into c values(2, 'C2');
> insert into b values(3, 'C3');
> select keyf, a.val as aval,
> coalesce(b.val,'Bxx') as bval,
> coalesce(c.val,'Cxx') as cval
> from a left join b using(keyf) left join c using (keyf);
> keyf aval bval cval
> ---- ---- ---- ----
> 1 A1 B1 Cxx
> 2 A2 B2 C2
> 3 A3 C3 Cxx
> 4 A4 Bxx Cxx
>
>
>
>
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