Re: How to join tables with different columns and different number of rows? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Richard Huxton
Subject Re: How to join tables with different columns and different number of rows?
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In response to Complicated query... is there a simpler way?  (Joshua Adam Ginsberg <rainman@owlnet.rice.edu>)
Responses Re[2]: How to join tables with different columns and different number of rows?  (Igor <dbmanager@osb368.nnov.ru>)
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From: "Igor" <dbmanager@osb368.nnov.ru>

> Hello!
>
> What SQL query will help me to concatenate two different tables
> with different number of rows? For example , i have first table
> with column1 and column2 , having 3 rows , and second table
> with column3, column4 , having 5 rows. How to make
> third table with column1,column2,column3,column4 and 5 rows in it
> (and last two rows in column1 and column2 are empty)

Something along the lines of:

SELECT col1,col2,'' as dummy3, '' as dummy4
FROM table1
UNION
SELECT '' as dummy1, '' as dummy2, col3, col4
FROM table2

should do it for you (not tested)

- Richard Huxton


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