Re: [SQL] cross tables, SELECT expressions, and GROUP BY problem

2006-04-02 Thread Ross Johnson
On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 16:43 +1000, Ross Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm relatively stretched when it comes to SQL but I'm getting there. I > have a question though: > > Thanks to various web sites I've succeeded in creating simple cross > tables in PostgreSQL. I'm now trying more complicated example

Re: [SQL] cross tables, SELECT expressions, and GROUP BY problem

2006-04-02 Thread Ross Johnson
Following up my own question again, I've realised my error and solved my problem - in the interests of completing this thread, the working query (two versions) can be found below... On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 18:00 +1000, Ross Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 16:43 +1000, Ross Johnson wrote: > >

[SQL] References NULL field

2006-04-02 Thread Paul M Foster
This is PostgreSQL 7.4 (long story). I have a table, registrars, which has, among other things, note_id integer references notes The notes table has, among other things, note_id integer default nextval('notes_seq') Right now, there's nothing in the notes table, and all the records in the regis

Re: [SQL] References NULL field

2006-04-02 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 11:43:34PM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > I want to do a query (in PHP, FWIW) that returns all the fields in > registrars, and the contents of any relevant notes records, or null for > those fields if there is no corresponding record in the notes table. But > when I do > > S