Subquery

From: George McQuade <gm(at)winls(dot)com>
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Subquery
Date: 2005-06-21 19:37:32
Message-ID: 1119382653.2853.9.camel@sat1
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Hello List,

I have 2 identical tables, table1 and table2 with 2 fields:
id int and idname varchar(30). I am successful in retrieving the records
in table1 not in table2 with:

select id from table1 except select id from table2;
id
-----
1
2
3
...

which is great. It would be even greater if I can get the table1.idname
as part of the output, for example:

id idname
----- ------
1 rice
2 beans
3 soy
...

something tells me I need to make my query a subquery of something else,
but can't quite figure it out.

thanks for any pointers

george

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  • Re: Subquery at 2005-06-21 20:34:33 from Keith Worthington

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