From: Harald Fuchs <hf0722x@protecting.net>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Question about a select
Date: 23 Jan 2005 16:37:47 +0100
Message-ID: <puoefg6tro.fsf@srv.protecting.net> (raw)
References: <20050122155611.GA6592@kaufbach.delug.de>
In article <20050122155611.GA6592@kaufbach.delug.de>,
Kretschmer Andreas <andreas_kretschmer@despammed.com> writes:
> Hi,
> I have a table with this columns: machine, date and area.
> Now i need a view with machine an week, calculated from date, and
> sum(area), where date between CURRENT_DATE and now+N days.
> Okay, this is not the problem, it works fine.
> (the original table and the view is more complex)
> The problem is, i need also rows for machine and week with no entrys in
> the table. For this rows the sum(area) shold be NULL ore 0.
> In other words: for every machine i need M rows, and M must be constant.
Week values don't automagically spring into existance when there are
no corresponding entries in your table. Use a set-returning function
for generating the week values you're interested in, and left-join
your table to the SRF.
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