Re: Left Outer Join Question

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 16:59:23 +1100, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
>> What's probably happening is that count isn't counting NULLs?
>
> As per spec. If you want to count records independently of whether any
> particular column is NULL or not, use count(*). See the docs, notably
> http://www.ca.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.2/postgres/sql-expressions.html#SYNTAX-AGGREGATES

I think the problem is that the rows are not being returned by the query
at all not that any particular column is null. Do I need to perform
another outer join? I am not sure how to tackle this problem.

> regards, tom lane
>
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