On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Dmitri Colebatch wrote:
> maybe just to qualify, I get this: > > select emp.name, lv.from_date, lv.to_date, pay.amount > from employee as emp > left join employee_leave as lv on emp.id = lv.employee_id > left join employee_pay as pay on emp.id = pay.employee_id > where emp.id = 1; > > name | from_date | to_date | amount > ------+------------+------------+-------- > dim | 2002-10-05 | 2002-05-14 | 100 > dim | 2002-10-05 | 2002-05-14 | 100 > dim | 2002-10-06 | 2002-06-14 | 100 > dim | 2002-10-06 | 2002-06-14 | 100 > (4 rows) > > but would expect the results to be > > name | from_date | to_date | amount > ------+------------+------------+-------- > dim | 2002-10-05 | 2002-05-14 | (null) > dim | 2002-10-05 | 2002-05-14 | (null) > dim | (null) | (null) | 100 > dim | (null) | (null) | 100 > (4 rows) > > am I missing something? I don't see why you'd expect that. Both rows in employee_leave match and both rows in employee_pay match. They're not unrelated joins, you're asking to join employee with employee_leave and then join the results of that with employee_pay. Perhaps you want a union? Something like: select emp.name, lv.from_date, lv.to_date, null as amount from employee as emp, employee_leave as lv where emp.id= lv.employee_id union select emp.name, null, null, pay.amount from employee as emp, employee_pay as pay where emp.id= pay.employee_id If you want to get a row for an employee even when they have neither leave nor pay, you can use left joins above, but that'll give you some rows that'll be like <name> NULL NULL NULL. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org