Re: Sequential select queries...??

From: "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>
To: Mark Mikulec <mm98au(at)badger(dot)ac(dot)brocku(dot)ca>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Sequential select queries...??
Date: 2001-08-20 17:09:43
Message-ID: 20010820120943.A5124@rice.edu
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Well, a short answerto your direct question would be:

Select id from T where name = 'bleh'

UNION ALL

Select id from T where description = 'bleh';

But since you described what your trying to do, not just how
your trying to do it, doesn't this do it for you?

SELECT id from T where name = 'bleh' and description = 'bleh';

That should give you just the ones where it appears in both.

Ross

On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 08:40:50PM -0400, Mark Mikulec wrote:
> Hello,
>
> At first I thought what I was trying to do was simple and could be done
> easily - but alas, I've spent way too much time and could not figure out
> how to get the results in question.
>
> Let's say I have a table T comprised of id of type integer, name and
> description both of type text.
>
> What i'd like to do is the following:
>
> Select id from T where name = 'bleh';
>
> and
>
> Select id from T where description = 'bleh';
>
> and result both results in the same result set. That is, duplicate id's
> if they appear. So then I could do a GROUP BY and a COUNT to see how
> many appeared in only one, and how many appeared in both.
>
> Could someone help me? I've tried countless different sql queries, can't
> seem to get one to work. If I can just get those duplicate id's in the
> query.. then I'd be laughing and then I can complete my task.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Mark
>
>
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