Trouble with subqueries - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Jussi Vainionpää
Subject Trouble with subqueries
Date
Msg-id 3A67EE1A.B7319298@cc.hut.fi
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I have the following two tables:

create table movies ( name varchar(80), info varchar(80), length int, primary key (name)
);

create table ratings ( name varchar(80), userid varchar(10), rating char(1), foreign key (name) references movies,
primarykey(name, userid)
 
);

The tables contain movies and users' ratings of the movies.
I would like to get a listing of all the movies along with how many
users have given the movie some particular rating. The first solution
that I came up with was this:

SELECT name, length, fives FROM movies,      (SELECT name as rname,              count(*) as fives         FROM ratings
       WHERE rating='5'         GROUP BY name) WHERE name=rname;
 

but in PostgreSQL 7 it just gives me this error message:
ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "("
I have previously used similar queries in Oracle where they have worked,
so it would seem to me that PostgreSQL doesn't support subselects after
all despite all the claims.
Am I doing something wrong or/and is there some another way of making
this query that would work in PostgreSQL?





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