Why doesn't this query work? Puzzle to hard for me to crack

From: "sdger erger" <killen(dot)nextdoor(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Why doesn't this query work? Puzzle to hard for me to crack
Date: 2008-02-20 15:41:11
Message-ID: deb32a990802200741t28c28ae3gfcec12f690103202@mail.gmail.com
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This query works as I want it to:

SELECT sum(cutoffuohands) AS HANDS, sum(cutoffuopfr) AS pfr
FROM compiledplayerresultspositionaction
JOIN compiledresults
ON compiledplayerresultspositionaction.compiledplayer results_id =
compiledresults.compiledplayerresults_id
JOIN players
ON compiledresults.player_id = players.player_id
WHERE playername = 'Robert'

It returns the number of "cutoffuohands" and the number of "cutoffuopfr" for
the player Robert.

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But this similar query does not work as I want it to do:

SELECT sum(cutoffuohands) AS HANDS, sum(cutoffuopfr) AS pfr
FROM compiledplayerresultspositionaction
JOIN compiledresults
ON compiledplayerresultspositionaction.compiledplayer results_id =
compiledresults.compiledplayerresults_id
JOIN players
ON compiledresults.player_id = players.player_id
WHERE playername = 'Robert'

I want it to return all the "cutoffuohands" and "cutoffuopfr" for all
players not named Robert. But it returns unreasonable numbers.

Unfortunately I don't know much about the inner workings of the database and
unfortunately I'm only a novice with SQL so I haven't been able to figure
out how to fix the second query. I hope you guys here on the mailing list
can take a lot at this and see if you can figure it out.

Thanks!

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