Re: It it possible to get this result in one query?

From: Nick <nboutelier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: It it possible to get this result in one query?
Date: 2010-10-15 00:13:57
Message-ID: 4c572c56-0b4a-4c23-87d4-68001b7fe11a@s12g2000prs.googlegroups.com
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I guess I should mention that im basically searching for a way to
recusively coalesce the title. So I want to search the second table
and

table_one (id,title)
1 | new one

table_two (id,title)
2 | new two

table_three (id,title)
1 | one
2 | two
3 | three

Id like an sql statement that returns...
1 | new one | [table_one,table_three]
2 | new two | [table_two,table_three]
3 | three | [table_three]

On Oct 14, 4:49 pm, Nick <nboutel(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Is it possible to get the results of this snip of a function without
> using a function? All tables include an id and title column.
>
> tables := ARRAY[table_one,table_two,table_three]::VARCHAR;
> CREATE TEMP TABLE final_results (id INTEGER, title VARCHAR, r_types
> VARCHAR[]);
> FOR t IN ARRAY_LOWER(tables,1) .. ARRAY_UPPER(tables,1) LOOP
>   FOR r IN EXECUTE 'SELECT id, title FROM ' || tables[t] LOOP
>     IF (SELECT TRUE FROM final_results WHERE id = r.id LIMIT 1) THEN
>       UPDATE final_results SET r_types =
> array_append(r_types,tables[t]) WHERE id = r.id;
>     ELSE
>       INSERT INTO final_results (id,title,r_types) VALUES
> (r.id,r.title,ARRAY[tables.t]);
>   END LOOP;
> END LOOP;

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