From: | Stefan Schwarzer <stefan(dot)schwarzer(at)grid(dot)unep(dot)ch> |
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To: | Nis Jørgensen <nis(at)superlativ(dot)dk> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Calculation of per Capita on-the-fly - problems with SQL syntax |
Date: | 2007-10-17 06:29:58 |
Message-ID: | FEFFB75D-8C8C-411B-A67E-95586AB9F3F8@grid.unep.ch |
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>> SELECT DISTINCT
>> ( CASE WHEN d.year=2003 AND pt.year=2003 AND pt.value <> '0' AND
>> pt.value IS NOT NULL THEN d.value / pt.value ELSE NULL END ) AS
>> y_2003,
>> ( CASE WHEN d.year=2002 AND pt.year=2002 AND pt.value <> '0' AND
>> pt.value IS NOT NULL THEN d.value / pt.value ELSE NULL END ) AS
>> y_2002,
>> c.name
>> FROM
>> public_multiple_tables.agri_area AS d
>> LEFT JOIN
>> public_multiple_tables.pop_total AS pt ON pt.id_country =
>> d.id_country
>> LEFT JOIN
>> countries_view AS c ON c.id = d.id_country
>> ORDER BY
>> name ASC
>>
>>
>> What am I doing wrong? Thanks for any advice,
>
> You are trying to do the join on the year in the SELECT expression.
> Also, you are trying to do the formatting into year-columns in your
> query. You are left joining to tables in which there should always
> be a
> mathing row (I assume).
>
> This should give you the same data out in a different format. Note
> that
> most of the NULL values will be excluded from this result.
>
> SELECT cname, year, d.value/pt.value
> FROM
> public_multiple_tables.agri_area AS d
> INNER JOIN
> public_multiple_tables.pop_total AS pt ON pt.id_country =
> d.id_country AND pt.year = d.year
> INNER JOIN
> countries_view AS c ON c.id = d.id_country
> WHERE d.year in (2002,2003,2004)
> AND pt.value <> 0
> ORDER by c.name, year;
Hmmm.... Actually, my intention was to get a more "excel" like
output, that is the formatting into year-columns. This eases a lot
the PHP/HTML display/loop. Otherwise I would have to start to do some
joggling inside PHP to get it that way....
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