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From Jodi Kanter
Subject sub selects
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Msg-id 00d301c1a438$c30bd160$de138f80@virginia.edu
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Responses Re: sub selects  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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I hope this is not too confusing..... I left my column names and table names as is but you should get the idea...
 
I am doing the following:
 
select usf_fk from am_spots where ams_pk in ((select min(ams_pk) from am_spots where am_fk>135),(select max(ams_pk) from am_spots where am_fk>135);
 
It works fine but I originally tried this:
 
select usf_fk from am_spots where ams_pk in (select min(ams_pk), max(ams_pk) from am_spots where am_fk>135);
 
I received an error saying that my subselect has too many fields. Did I use the wrong syntax or is it just a postgres rule that you can't pull more than one field back in a sub select?
 
Also, I need to now embed this entire select statement into another select statement such as:
 
select spot_identifier from al_spots where als_pk in (SELECT STATMENT ABOVE)
 
Can I do this? Is there any easier way that I cannot see? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks
Jodi

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