Re: Finding records that are not there - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:21:35PM -0400, Owen Hartnett wrote:
> The SQL I've tried is:
> select commcost.maplot, commcost.unitno from commcost
> where not exists(select 1 from commcost, bldg
> where commcost.maplot = bldg.maplot and
> commcost.unitno = bldg.unitno)
> order by commcost.maplot

change it to:

> select commcost.maplot, commcost.unitno from commcost
> where not exists(select 1 from bldg
> where commcost.maplot = bldg.maplot and
> commcost.unitno = bldg.unitno)
> order by commcost.maplot

or simply write:

select * from commcost except select * from bldg;

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