Re: Generating a range of integers in a query

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 04:13, Aaron Bingham wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've got an interesting problem: I need to select all possible values
> of an attribute that do /not/ occur in the database.
>
> This would be easy (in my case at least) if there were a way to
> generate a table containing all integers between 1 and n, where n is
> the result of a subquery. In my case, n will be at most a few
> hundred. I would like to be able to generate this table as a
> subquery. Any ideas?

Take a look here:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/functions-srf.html

specifically, the generate_series() function.