Hi, Louis-David,

I guess you already have your problem solved, but just for the sake of curiosity, another way to do it might be to tweak a little your original query, I've written on Capitals the things I've added. Should you need to exclude more than one event you can add the conditions to the commented line (ORed )

Best,
Oliveiros

select distinct pt.type
from person_type pt
natural join person_to_event
join event e using (id_event)
LEFT JOIN event e2
ON e.id_event = e2.id_event
AND e2.id_event=219     -- put here the id of the event you wanna exclude
join event_type et
ON e.id_event_type = et.id_event_type
where et.type_fr='théâtre'
GROUP BY pt.type_fr
HAVING SUM(e2.id_event) IS NULL;

----- Original Message ----- From: "Louis-David Mitterrand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: [SQL] exclusion query


On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 09:39:08AM -0700, Mark Roberts wrote:

Taking your second email into account, I came up with:

select distinct pt.type_fr
from person_to_event pte
    inner join person_type using (id_person_type)
where id_person_type in (
    select id_person_type
    from person_to_event pte
        inner join event using (id_event)
        inner join event_type using (id_event_type)
    where type_fr = 'theatre'
) and id_person_type not in (
    select id_person_type
    from person_to_event
    where id_event = 219
)

I feel like there's a solution involving group by tugging at the back of
my mind, but I can't quite put my finger on it.  Sorry if this isn't
quite what you're asking for.

Hi,

That works very nicely (with minor adaptations).

I also had that solution-without-a-subselect in the back of my mind but
this does the job just fine!

Cheers,

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