Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Pardon my lameness, I have JUST dipped my toes in PostgreSQL and want to try this out! I'm probably wrong but here goes my very first PostgreSQL join attempt!
SELECT region_name, count(complaint.id) FROM region LEFT JOIN city ON (region.id = city.region_id) LEFT JOIN complaint ON (city.id = complaint.city_id) GROUP BY region_name; Okay, I have been looking at PostgreSQL for all of a few hours today and don't even have it installed. Am I close, gurus? -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-sql-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-sql-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Carol Cheung Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 2:00 PM To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: [SQL] left outer join on more than 2 tables? Hi, I have 3 tables region: id region_name city: id city_name region_id complaint: id date city_id I would like to find the counts of complaints by region and I would like all regions to be displayed, regardless of whether or not complaints exist for that region. Is left outer join what I'm looking for? I'm stuck at this point: select r.region_name, count(1) from region r left outer join city c, complaint k on (k.city_id = c.id and r.id = c.region_id) group by r.region_name Of course this doesn't work ... Can anyone provide their insight as to how I can achieve this? Thanks in advance, C -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-sql Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-sql