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From: Aaron Bono <postgresql@aranya.com>
To: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: where clause subqueries vs multiple rows results
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 23:55:02 -0500
Message-ID: <bf05e51c0609102155i1683e18fg47ed27b77113d153@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bf05e51c0609102154uebc2bc5kebe34b10520d351c@mail.gmail.com>
References: <m3y7srm695.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org>
	<bf05e51c0609102154uebc2bc5kebe34b10520d351c@mail.gmail.com>

Oops, see correction below...

On 9/10/06, Aaron Bono <postgresql@aranya.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/10/06, James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> wrote:
>
> > I've a query which I'd have liked to word akin to:
> >
> >   SELECT guid FROM child WHERE the_fkey =
> >          ( SELECT id FROM parent WHERE name ~ 'some_regex' )
> >          ORDER BY the_fkey, my_pkey;
> >
> > I got around it by doing the SELECT id first, and then doing a SELECT
> > guid for each row returned, appending the results together.
> >
> > Can that be done in a single query, insead of 1+n queries?
>
>
>
> Will this work?
>
> SELECT guid
> FROM child
> INNER JOIN parent ON (
>     child.the_fkey = parent.id
> )
> WHERE name ~ 'some_regex'
> ORDER BY
>     child.the_fkey,
>     child.my_pkey
> ;
>
> I am not sure what table name is from but since you say it is n+1 queries
> I assume it is from the child table?  It would help to know what columns are
> on which tables.
>
> ==================================================================
>    Aaron Bono
>    Aranya Software Technologies, Inc.
>    http://www.aranya.com
>    http://codeelixir.com
> ==================================================================
>



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   Aaron Bono
   Aranya Software Technologies, Inc.
   http://www.aranya.com
   http://codeelixir.com
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