Re: problem with join

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: "Edward W(dot) Rouse" <erouse(at)comsquared(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: problem with join
Date: 2007-02-15 04:02:52
Message-ID: 20070215040252.GA24667@wolff.to
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On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 17:21:44 -0500,
"Edward W. Rouse" <erouse(at)comsquared(dot)com> wrote:
>
> I tried using coalesce(count(value4)) and case count(value4) = 0
> with no luck. I tried left and right joins and the right join gave me
> the same results while the left join gave me rows like:

That is because neither side of the join had all combinations of numbers
and letters. One approach would be to cross join a table with 'one', 'two',
and 'three' with one with 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', and 'f'. And then
left join the query above to it.

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