Re: Missing numbers - Mailing list pgsql-general

From josue
Subject Re: Missing numbers
Date
Msg-id 429DC12B.3030903@lamundial.hn
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In response to Re: Missing numbers  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
List pgsql-general
Simon Riggs wrote:
>>
>>You could use something like that:
>>
>>SELECT g.num
>>FROM generate_series ((SELECT min(doc_numero) FROM bdocs),
>>                      (SELECT max(doc_numero) FROM bdocs)) AS g(num)
>>LEFT JOIN bdocs ON bdocs.doc_numero = g.num
>>WHERE bdocs.doc_numero IS NULL
>
>
> SELECT g.num
> FROM generate_series ((SELECT min(doc_numero) FROM bdocs),
>                       (SELECT max(doc_numero) FROM bdocs)) AS g(num)
> WHERE g.num NOT IN (select doc_numero
>            from bdocs
>            where doc_numero is not null)
>
> is more likely to return a correct answer, since
> bdocs.doc_numero will never equal g,num when it is also NULL

Yes, it worked pretty fine. Thanks.

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Josué Maldonado.

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