From: Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Having a mental block with (self) outer joins
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:15:20 +0200
Message-ID: <fui7ho$12e$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080421140521.GA15223@depesz.com>
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hubert depesz lubaczewski, 21.04.2008 16:05:
>> ROOT, 1, NULL
>> CHILD1, 2, 1
>> CHILD2, 3, 1
>>
>> I would have expected the following result:
>>
>> ROOT, NULL
>> ROOT, CHILD1
>> ROOT, CHILD2
>>
>> but the row with (ROOT,NULL) is not returned.
>
> why would you expect it?
> the columns are: parent and child (on your output).
> you dont have any row that has *parent_id = 1* and id = NULL.
Ah, of course that's where my mental block was ;)
Thanks for the quick response
> you can get this output though:
>
> NULL, ROOT
> ROOT, CHILD1
> ROOT, CHILD2
>
> with this query:
>
> select p.name as parent, c.name as child from category c left outer join category p on c.parent_id = p.id
If the table contains more levels (i.e. child1 being the parent of another item) this bring others back as well. And I was trying to retrieve the full path for each item (I do know the max. number of levels)
Cheers, and thanks a lot for the quick response
Thomas
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