Fw: Selecting Fields in Union in Subquery

Bartosz,

Thank you so much!

That is the information I needed.

   select "Id","Country","State/Provence"
    from
    (select g.geo_id as "Id", g.geo_name as "Country", gTo.geo_name as "State/Provence"
    from geo g,geo gTo, geo_assoc ga
    where ga.geo_id = g.geo_id
    and ga.geo_id_to = gTo.geo_id
    and g.geo_id IN (select geo_id from geo where geo_type_id='COUNTRY')
    and g.geo_id = 'USA'
    union
    select g.geo_id as "Id", g.geo_name as "Country", '' as
"State/Provence"
    from geo g LEFT OUTER JOIN geo_assoc ga on g.geo_id = ga.geo_id
    where g.geo_type_id='COUNTRY' and ga.geo_id is null) as GeoList
    where "Id" ='USA'
    order by "State/Provence";

or alternate without camel case
    select id,country,state
    from
    (select g.geo_id as "id", g.geo_name as "country", gTo.geo_name as "state"
    from geo g,geo gTo, geo_assoc ga
    where ga.geo_id = g.geo_id
    and ga.geo_id_to = gTo.geo_id
    and g.geo_id IN (select geo_id from geo where geo_type_id='COUNTRY')
    union
    select g.geo_id as "id", g.geo_name as "country", '' as "state"
    from geo g LEFT OUTER JOIN geo_assoc ga on g.geo_id = ga.geo_id
    where g.geo_type_id='COUNTRY' and ga.geo_id is null) as GeoList
    where "id" ='USA'
    order by state;

both work

Again my thanks,

Tom

________________________________
From: Bartosz Dmytrak <bdmytrak(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Burns <tramseyburns(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2012 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Selecting Fields in Union in Subquery

2012/7/13 Tom Burns <tramseyburns(at)yahoo(dot)com>

>
>I can no figure out the syntax for directly addressing fields (for example 'order by StateProvence" or "order by gTo.geo_name" instead of order by 3)

This should work ("StateProvence" not gTo.geo_name), but You should remember to use " (quotation mark) when You use camel cased names. If not PG will treat fields names like written in small letters. 
You should do something like this:
order by "StateProvence"
not
order by StateProvence
 
I would like to be able to filter and sort the sub-query in the parent query.
I don't get it, I assume You would like to sort/filter sub-query result in parent query.  Then You should remember to use names of sub-query result columns i.e
gTo.geo_name is not visilbe, but geolist."StateProvence" is visible outside sub query

Regards,
Bartek