The trans table contains the stub for each transaction and the trans_item table contains all the items belonging to the transaction. I need to be able to pull categorized reports for items and have all of the totals less the discounts match up with the total from the stubs for a given period. Why is my discount total different when I left join the trans table to the totals? mg=# SELECT SUM(subtotal+tax) AS total, SUM(discount) AS discount FROM trans WHERE DATE_TRUNC('DAY',stamp)='20051010'; total | discount --------+---------- 438.35 | 9.75 (1 row)
mg=# SELECT sum(item_price+round(item_price*item_tax,2)*qty) as total, sum(t.discount) mg-# FROM trans_item ti mg-# LEFT JOIN trans t mg-# ON ti.trans_id=t.id mg-# WHERE date_trunc('day',t.stamp)='20051010'; total | discount --------+---------- 444.10 | 14.52 mg=# \d trans Table "public.trans" Column | Type | Modifiers ---------------+-----------------------------+------------------------------------------------------- id | integer | not null default nextval('public.trans_id_seq'::text) stamp | timestamp without time zone | default now() trans_type_id | integer | not null subtotal | numeric(6,2) | default 0.00 tax | numeric(6,2) | default 0.00 discount | numeric(6,2) | default 0.00 total_cash | numeric(6,2) | default 0.00 total_credit | numeric(6,2) | default 0.00 total_check | numeric(6,2) | default 0.00 total_gift | numeric(6,2) | default 0.00 mg=# \d trans_item Table "public.trans_item" Column | Type | Modifiers ------------+--------------+------------------------------------------------------------ id | integer | not null default nextval('public.trans_item_id_seq'::text) trans_id | integer | not null parent | integer | qty | integer | not null default 1 item_sku | text | not null item_price | numeric(5,2) | item_tax | numeric(4,4) |