Re: Missing numbers

From: josue <josue(at)lamundial(dot)hn>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: hf1122x(at)protecting(dot)net, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Missing numbers
Date: 2005-06-01 14:07:39
Message-ID: 429DC12B.3030903@lamundial.hn
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Simon Riggs wrote:
>>
>>You could use something like that:
>>
>>SELECT g.num
>>FROM generate_series ((SELECT min(doc_numero) FROM bdocs),
>> (SELECT max(doc_numero) FROM bdocs)) AS g(num)
>>LEFT JOIN bdocs ON bdocs.doc_numero = g.num
>>WHERE bdocs.doc_numero IS NULL
>
>
> SELECT g.num
> FROM generate_series ((SELECT min(doc_numero) FROM bdocs),
> (SELECT max(doc_numero) FROM bdocs)) AS g(num)
> WHERE g.num NOT IN (select doc_numero
> from bdocs
> where doc_numero is not null)
>
> is more likely to return a correct answer, since
> bdocs.doc_numero will never equal g,num when it is also NULL

Yes, it worked pretty fine. Thanks.

--
Sinceramente,
Josué Maldonado.

... "Cultura es el paso que nos queda después de haber olvidado todo lo
aprendido."

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