multiple lookup per row

Hi all,

I've got a table 'phones' which has an indexed key 'pid' of type int4, and a
phone number of type varchar(12).

I've then got a table 'members' which as an index key 'mid' of type int4.

Now, obviously, if each member only had one phone number, I could simply pull
it in using a join. My problem is that each member has (potentially) a voice
line 'mphone', a fax line 'mfax', and a mobile (that's a cellphone to you lot
over the pond) 'mmobile'.

How would I embelish a 'select * from members........' so that it included
the three phone numbers if they exist?

The only solution I can think of is to write a plpgsql function to do the
lookup and call that three times as part of the select, something like

select *, getphone(mphone) as phone, getphone(mfax) as fax.....

but a purely SQL solution would be nicer.

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