From: | Magnus Hagander <mha(at)edu(dot)sollentuna(dot)se> |
---|---|
To: | "'pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Finding 'holes' |
Date: | 1998-05-18 14:52:29 |
Message-ID: | 51F537775B63D0119D8D00805FBEB256CE495C@venture.edu.sollentuna.se |
Views: | Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email |
Thread: | |
Lists: | pgsql-sql |
Hi!
I need (well, not really need, but want to) a query that can give me the
"holes" in a sequence.
For example, I have a table which contains
id data
-- ----
1 xxx
2 yyy
4 zzz
6 ...
I would then like a query that can return the values 3 and 5, since
those are the ones not existing in the table.
I guess I could create a table which contains all the values 1..max(id)
and then do a
SELECT id FROM all_ids WHERE id NOT IN (SELECT id FROM datatable)
but I would really like to make it without the need to create such a
table (which will in time be very large and unnecessary).
Does anybody know of a way to do this?
//Magnus
From | Date | Subject | |
---|---|---|---|
Next Message | Jose' Soares Da Silva | 1998-05-18 15:38:25 | Re: [SQL] New User -- PG features |
Previous Message | Rachel Kay Street | 1998-05-18 14:50:11 | SQL Syntax: char to varchar type conversion(s) |