Re: difficult query - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Ian Barwick
Subject Re: difficult query
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Msg-id 200205041744.48054.barwick@gmx.net
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In response to difficult query  (Jakub Ouhrabka <jouh8664@ss1000.ms.mff.cuni.cz>)
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On Saturday 04 May 2002 16:00, Jakub Ouhrabka wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to ask how to write sql query returning following results without
> using any other table than table1 (e.g. without outer join with table
> containing all possible day numbers...)
(...)
> I'd like to write query returning this:
>
> query results:
> day | number of records for a day
> ----------------------
> 1   |  2
> 2   |  1
> 3   |  0   <--- !!!
> 4   |  2
>
> Is it possible to do this in sql?

Basically, no. (You might be able to do it with the help
of a user-defined function though).

Why do you want to do this?

Ian Barwick





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